Crocodylians are surviving members of a 230-million-year lineage called crocodylomorphs, a group that includes living crocodylians (i.e. crocodiles, alligators and gharials) and their many extinct relatives.

A new species of early crocodyloid crocodilian being named Asiatosuchus oenotriensis has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Stadthagen Formation of north-western Germany.

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Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a new species of the mekosuchine crocodilian genus Baru in the Alcoota Scientific Reserve, about 110 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Australia's Northern Territory.

Paleontologists have studied bone histology of an array of early dinosaurs alongside that of non-dinosaurian contemporaries from the Ischigualasto Formation.

Using whole-genome sequencing and bioinformatic analysis, scientists provide the first evidence of facultative parthenogenesis in a crocodilian -- the

The extinct species, uncovered in Thailand, is keying researchers into how and when American and Chinese alligators split apart.

A team of entomologists and reptile specialists from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the Chiricahua Desert Museum, the Illinois Natural History Survey, Reptilandia Reptile Lagoon and Parque Reptilandia has documented a case of a virgin crocodile laying viable eggs. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their surprise at the discovery of a clutch of eggs…

Parthenogenesis found in crocodile suggests that dinosaurs may have been capable as well

They could rewrite the history of evolution.

Contrary to previous beliefs, the plesiosaur spent time in freshwater. Still, scientists doubt the reptile was the Loch Ness monster.

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