A Florida zoo shared video of an attempted escape by a crocodilian that broke through the back window of a van during transport and attempted to flee down a road.

The gharial is a critically endangered crocodilian species that can be found in Bangladesh, Nepal and India.

This critically endangered animal, known for its long, thin snout with a bulbous growth at the end, split off from other crocodilian species 40 million years ago.

Paleontologists document a rare occurrence of a bite mark to the neck vertebra of a juvenile fossil specimen of a giant azhdarchid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, around 76 million years ago.

Learn more about how this rare find gives researchers a glimpse at the predator-prey relationship these prehistoric creatures had.

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years.

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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.

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.

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

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.

Non-avian theropod dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex, had lips that covered their teeth, leaving them looking more like modern Komodo dragons than crocodiles.

Taking someone else's visual perspective marks an evolutionary shift in the formation of advanced social cognition.

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

Scientists re-create the last moments of a manateelike animal that was eaten by both a crocodilian and a shark

Paleontologists have unearthed a 20-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a species of the dugongid sirenian mammal Culebratherium with shark and crocodylian bite marks in northwestern Venezuela.

When it comes to odd news epicenters, one need not look much further than the great state of Florida, home of an escaped crocodilian, a mail-order snowman and the world's tallest teen.

A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores—a crocodilian and a shark—is revealing clues into both the predation tactics of ancient creatures and the wider food chain millions of years ago.

The Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered species native to the Orinoco River basin in Colombia and Venezuela. It is one of the largest crocodilian species in the world, reaching lengths of up to seven meters. Despite its impressive size, it is also the most endangered and least-studied of the New World crocodilians.