Pakasuchus lived during the Cretaceous period in the Southern Hemisphere, where small crocodiles were fulfilling the same roles that small mammals. And they did so using similar body shapes and ...

A cat-size crocodile sporting a tail covered in armored plates was not as fierce as its relatives today. Rather, the animal foraged for insects and small mammals 105 million years ago along what is ...

Modern crocodylians—from alligators to gharials—can't chew their food. Their jaws are adapted for snapping shut quickly and powerfully on prey, but once these archosaurs have captured their meal, they ...

Paleontologists scouring a river bank in Tanzania have unearthed a previously unknown crocodile from 105 million-year-old, mid-Cretaceous rock in the Great East African Rift System. The discovery of ...

The fossilised remains of a small land-dwelling crocodile that jumped for prey like an agile cat, has been found in Tanzania. The animal, called Pakasuchus kapilimai, is described today in the journal ...

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The fossilised remains of an ancient crocodile with cat-like features that feasted on insects and other small animals have been recovered from a riverbank in south-western Tanzania. The short, agile ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing last year’s stories, according to theme and topic. This one is about this year’s new species, both living and extinct. 8 ) T.rex the nose-loving ...

This artist's rendering of the newly discovered Pakasuchus kapilimai, a crocodile that lived around 100 million years ago in Africa when it was part of Gondwana, is rather scary on first glance. A ...