July 23 (UPI) --Novel bone structures found on the skull of Crocodylus checchiai, an extinct African crocodile species, suggest American crocodiles originated in Africa, according to a study published ...

Three men have been arrested in South Africa for stealing a 8-feet long Nile crocodile worth about $1,300 from a farm in the North West province, police said Monday. The men, who are all aged between ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Police and conservation officers were searching Friday for an unknown number of young crocodiles that escaped earlier in the week from a large breeding farm in South ...

A young girl escaped from the jaws of a massive crocodile by hitting and scratching at its nose and face after it attacked her while she was swimming in a river. The 9-year-old girl was swimming in ...

Mother Nature has ways of letting us know that she ought to be respected, and crocodiles are a fine example. Belonging to the Crocodylidae family — part of the reptilian order of Crocodilia (which ...

It can swallow entire gazelles, turtles, and even lions. This is the Nile crocodile, the most dangerous crocodile in the ...

A safari company in South Africa has shared footage showing a Nile crocodile maneuvering out of water carrying an enormous fish. (Footage posted below.) “A young Nile Crocodile surprised us by proudly ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park announced the hatching of seven African Dwarf Crocodiles (Osteolaemus afzelii), marking a milestone in reptilian conservation.

West African crocodiles at Kachikally Crocodile Pool in Bakau, a town just outside the Gambia's capital city of Banjul, are much less likely to eat you if they've already had a hearty meal first thing ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Some 15,000 crocodiles escaped from a South African reptile farm during a flood this week and about half of them are still on the loose in and around one of southern Africa's biggest ...