For most of us, visiting the zoo as a child brings up happy memories of adventures, melting ice cream, and childhood friends.

It sounds crazy – hosting Olympic rowing and canoeing on a river home to crocodiles. Yet that’s what is likely to happen in ...

A number of villages in the Zambezi region have been submerged by floodwaters, forcing families to leave their homes and seek shelter on higher ground.

At a glance, alligators and crocodiles look nearly identical. Both are massive reptiles with armored skin, powerful jaws and a prehistoric lineage that stretches back more than 200 million years.

The River Nile flows for 4,132 miles through the African continent, crossing 11 countries, through desert and Savannah, past ancient cities and temples. It is the longest river in the world – though ...

Alligators and crocodiles are easily confused with each other. Both are large - often very large - toothy, heavily-armoured, amphibious reptiles that can really take the fun out of a wild swim. But ...

More than three million years ago, the world looked very different from today. Early human relatives walked across the African landscape in search of food and water. Rivers and lakes were important ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more ...

Brandon Michael Sideleau is affiliated with IUCN-SCC Crocodile Specialist Group, Charles Darwin University, and CrocAttack (crocattack.org). Recent crocodile sightings in floodwaters in the Northern ...

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. Credit: Tyler Stone, University of Iowa. Over ...

A former Alligator Alcatraz detainee says this patch was ‘meant to make us even more afraid than we already were. I always felt haunted by it, but I never said anything because I was so afraid.’ ...