The team used the data to create an evolutionary tree for all of them ... tolerance and distance from alligators on the crocodilian family tree.

my family and I spent a summer weekend in the Comfort Inn across the street from The Alligator’s office. Before wandering into the hotel, I aimlessly gazed at the bulky trees covering the paper ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a key trait that modern alligators lack.

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of giant crocodile that lived millions of years ago in what is now North America ...

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...

Dwarfism in early alligatoroids was another clue that giant Deinosuchus was no “greater alligator,” and it likely diverged into a different branch of the family tree before alligatoroids ...

For decades, this family "hammock" – as the tree-covered islands that poke out ... with at least one permanent resident: an American alligator that, at around 7ft (2.1m) from nose to tail ...