Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

To put that into perspective, it takes about 4,000 Newtons to break a human femur. So a single bite from Crocodylus porosus ...

The Nile crocodile is one of the most fearsome predators in the world, sitting at the top of the food chain within its habitat. But every so often a specimen pushes the dimensional boundaries of what ...

A new study has challenged previous knowledge on anaconda, the giant snakes that haunt people nightmares.

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Anacondas come from an era when many fellow reptiles and amphibians were equally gigantic. They all shrank or disappeared, ...

New research reveals ancient anacondas were as big as today's giants. Fossils from Venezuela show these snakes reached 5.2 ...

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

The new fossil was unearthed in a remote part of Argentinian Patagonia—and had teeth comparable to a T. rex, says National Geographic Explorer Diego Pol. The fossil skull of Kostensuchus atrox, a ...

A miniature model in front of the larger skeletal version of the Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, a dinosaur named partially after Ross Perot and his family, in the T. Boone Pickens Life Then And Now Hall.

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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 ...