Turtles aside, humans tend to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of longevity, but there's one crocodile that has us all beat ...

In Africa, it is estimated that 200 people a year get taken by Nile crocodiles – but many of the locals think the number may be much higher than this. In some areas, crocodile barriers have been ...

The specimens found at Qubbet el Hawa belong to two species: the Nile crocodile and the West African crocodile. When alive, the mummified crocodiles ranged in size from around six feet to 11.5 feet.

"It's kind of an uneasy feeling." He tells us about his doctoral advisor at Duke, who was doing research with a graduate student on a lake in Africa. A crocodile took a bite out of their ...

The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are ...

Dr. Alison Leslie, a crocodile researcher at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, describes the often hair-raising aspects of studying the ecology and behavior of Nile crocodiles in ...

A young boy has lost his arm after he was attacked by a crocodile on a fishing trip in South Africa. Johandre Blom, 7, was in the shallows of the Roodekopjes Dam, near Brits, on Friday when he was ...