More than a dozen crocodiles that went missing from breeding ponds after heavy rains that pummelled South Africa's Durban city and swamped a crocodile farm, have been found, a conservancy said ...

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.

A resemblance between a long-lost African crocodile and modern American crocs goes beyond the shared bump on their snouts. “It really looks like an American true crocodile, but it comes from Africa,” ...

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 ...

A sharp-toothed fossil found in an Egyptian desert proves that sea-going crocodiles originated in Africa, according to scientists. They say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile that was around ...

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