million-year-old fossils revealed that this species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

The Temple of Khnum at Esna, about 37 miles south of Luxor, is a late Ptolemaic- and Roman-era site that once stood as one of ...

AN ANCIENT predator that lived before the dinosaurs was a “precursor” of the modern crocodile. Experts have shed light on the “extremely rare” discovery of a ...

Scientists say they have unearthed Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells, a discovery that could shed light on ancient reptiles that may have hunted prey by dropping on them from trees. The ...

An Egyptian team of paleontologists has uncovered Wadisuchus kassabi, a long snouted marine crocodile that lived 80 million years ago. This rare fossil sheds new light on the early evolution of the ...

The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, and its inundation was the pivotal annual event in Egyptian civilization. Every summer, between May and September, the river gradually swelled until it ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, god of abundance and fertility. THE PERFECT AMOUNTEgyptians needed the ...

This video explores the extraordinary gharial, a crocodile so rare and unusual that many people don’t realize it still exists. Its long, needle-thin snout and specialized teeth reveal a predator built ...

All the way back in 49 BCE, emperor of the known world Julius Caesar sported history’s first known combover — which tells you ...

AN ANCIENT predator that lived before the dinosaurs was a “precursor” of the modern crocodile. Experts have shed light on the “extremely rare” discovery of a new armour-plated carnivore that lived 240 ...