Reptiles have existed for millions of years, demonstrating remarkable resilience and adaptations. The seven largest reptiles ...

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

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.

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 ...

Save for the Nile crocodile (see Close Calls with Crocs), all of Africa's big beasts are missing, because Madagascar drifted out of range of the continent that gave it birth long before rhinos and ...

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 ...

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 ...