Learn about saltwater crocodiles in our expert guide, including where they live in the wild, what they eat and whether they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wild, they can live up to 70 years, with the Saltwater crocodile being the longest-living species. A famous Nile crocodile named Henry just celebrated a birthday last year, turning 124 in ...

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 ...

Reptiles are air-breathing vertebrates covered in special skin made up of scales, bony plates, or a combination of both. They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and tor- toises. All ...