The fossil remains of Sarcosuchus imperator—a prehistoric reptile dubbed “SuperCroc”—were uncovered in the Elrhaz Formation of Niger and described in detail in the early 2000s by paleontologist Paul ...

Sarcosuchus lived during the Cretaceous period in vast river systems that supported diverse dinosaur populations Its ...

Sarcosuchus lived around 100 million years ago and is believed to have reached 40 feet. It wasn’t a crocodile in the modern sense—but it was close and terrifying. Bujang Senang – Estimated 19 ft (5.8 ...

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Hanging on a wall in Dragoon Brewing Co.’s Tucson tap room is a small chalkboard, and on this chalkboard employees have drawn a pair of animals: a hippopotamus and a crocodile. These creatures were ...

The bones of a 40-foot crocodile that dined on dinosaurs and 12-foot-long fish have been discovered by researchers at Yale and at the University of Chicago in the Cretaceous rocks in Niger, Africa.

Sarcosuchus was a crocodile-like reptile that lived 110 million years ago in Africa. It was as long as a school bus and weighed about as much as a small whale. NPR's Richard Harris reports that new ...

WASHINGTON — The crocodile was a silent stalker, as long as a school bus and weighing almost 18,000 pounds. It cruised the primeval rivers of what is now Saharan Africa, looking for unwary dinosaurs ...

Crocodiles have a nasty reputation, but the leathery, snappish critters have been around so long that they probably gave dinosaurs a fright too. On Thursday, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul ...