The fossils of a "bonecrushing" ancestor of the modern-day crocodile that hunted dinosaurs 230 million years ago have been discovered in Brazil, stunning researchers.

Differences in the skulls of carnivorous dinosaurs suggest some dinosaurs ripped flesh while others crushed bones ...

Researchers, including from the University of Bristol, found that while dinosaurs like the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex were ...

The crocodile, which had teeth bigger than those of a T. Rex, is called the Razanandrongobe sakalavae, scientists said.

Ancient Crocodile Fossil Defies Dinosaur Label By ABC News July 5, 2005, 5:17 AM ...

The crocodile sample, which researchers had initially found in a siltstone mass, had been crushed. However, the number of bones left behind accounted for 35% of the skull, allowing researchers to ...

Yet the humble crocodile has ambled along over the last 200 million years, relatively unchanged from its Jurassic period ancestors. A study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications ...

Researchers have discovered footprints of an ancient species from the crocodile family that walked upright on two legs. These creatures may have looked a bit like dinosaurs, but they weren’t ...

Many of these crurotarsans look nothing like crocodiles, but instead are eerily similar to dinosaurs and, in fact, have been mistaken for dinosaur ancestors, or even true dinosaurs, in the past.

Courtesy of Phil R. Bell Circular knobs on the fossilized scales look similar to integumentary sense organs (ISOs), which cover the bodies of modern crocodiles.