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Deinosuchus (/ ˌ d aɪ n ə ˈ sj uː k ə s /) is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period.
Modern crocodilians, a subgroup of Neosuchia, emerged during the Late Cretaceous. [8] Crocodylomorph diversity was severely reduced by the end-Cretaceous extinction event . [ 9 ] The last group of terrestrially adapted crocodylomorphs was the Sebecidae , a group of large predatory notosuchians which persisted in South America until the middle ...
The discovery of Confractosuchus was announced by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum on 11 February 2022, and was published in the journal Gondwana Research. [4] It is the second extinct eusuchian crocodyliform genus discovered from the Winton Formation, after Isisfordia that was discovered during the mid-1990s and named in 2006. [5] [6]
Remains of Europe's largest-ever land-based dinosaur have been discovered on the Isle of Wight in England, University of Southampton scientists say.
Xiaohe (Chinese: 小河; pinyin: Xiǎohé, 1982–2023) was a male saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) that, at the time of his death, was among the largest fully captive-bred crocodilians known.
A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...
Sarcosuchus (/ ˌ s ɑːr k oʊ ˈ s uː k ə s /; lit. ' flesh crocodile ') is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodilians that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 133 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America.
Crocodile Dundee fans are mourning the loss of movie legend Burt the Saltwater crocodile.. On Sunday, Dec. 23., a representative for Crocosaurus Cove Darwin penned a sad Facebook post which ...