Crocodiles have outlasted dinosaurs, perfected an ambush that strikes faster than most animals can react, and developed ...

A famous Nile crocodile named Henry just celebrated a birthday last year, turning 124 in December. This living fossil currently resides at Crocworld Conservation Centre in South Africa, after being ...

Once sharing the top of the food chain with dinosaurs roughly 80 million years ago, crocodiles are one apex predator most of us hope to never run into unexpectedly. What makes crocodiles so ...

A terrorizing presence since the 1980s, Gustave has lurked in the shadows for well over a decade. Now, a herpetologist dives in to tell the story. In the heart of Central Africa, where the Ruzizi ...

That was the extraordinary approach taken in AD 819 by Han Yu, one of China's greatest writers and a senior official of the Tang dynasty. Newly appointed to govern Chaozhou in southern China, Han ...

In the dark forest rivers of Côte d’Ivoire, one of Africa’s rarest crocodiles is still holding on. The West African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) has found one of its most ...

Van Schalkwyk is responding to a statement appearing in an essay by Anitra Nettleton and David Hammond-Tooke on art of the Pedi and Ntwane. The offending statement concerns a Hananwa carved wooden ...

Planet Earth is home to over 2 million different species, all of which are at least somewhat unique. But while we humans have our intellect, which makes us truly stand out from the crowd, we’re not ...