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 ...

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.

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 ...

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