In evolutionary terms, islands are the stuff of weirdness. It is on islands where animals evolve in isolation, often for millions of years, with different food sources, competitors, predators, and ...

Some ancient crocodiles, like Simosuchus, were doing things vastly different to surviving species, such as eating plants ©Smokeybjb/Wikimedia Commons In a pair of new papers, scientists are delving ...

Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species came to be. There are around 28 living species of crocodilians ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The new season doesn’t change up the formula, but it does offer plenty of dino drama to watch. The new season ...

PREHISTORIC Planet should act as a "stark reminder that the world is a fragile place", says producer Tim Walker. Narrated by David Attenborough and executive produced by Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, ...

Life-like reconstruction of Adalatherium hui from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Credit: ©Denver Museum of Nature & Science/Andrey Atuchin International team of researchers, led by David Krause, ...

Eruptions of lava flows of Deccan large igneous province straddled the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary (K-Pg). Sediments associated at different stratigraphic levels within the lava piles of Deccan ...

What does the term crocodylian bring to mind? A big reptile with a chomping jaw? Crocodylians are the 27 species of crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials that live all over Earth today, except ...

COMPARED WITH mammals, living members of the crocodile clan have exceptionally boring dentition. From the slender-snouted gharials of India and the nocturnal caimans of South America to the saltwater ...