Not even Steve Irwin would want to take on the beast known as "super croc." Sarcosuchus imperator, as it is technically known, was a prehistoric reptile and a contender for the largest crocodilian in ...

More than 120 million years ago, Sarcosuchus imperator lurked in the tropical rivers and swamps of what is now Africa as one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saltwater crocodiles are the largest living reptiles on Earth, but they are far from the biggest crocodiles to ever exist.

Scientists have come up with a remarkable new monster just in time for Hallowe'en, a giant crocodile big enough to gobble up a dinosaur. Massive is hardly a big enough word to describe the stunning ...

It’s lucky for Steve Irwin, television’s intrepid crocodile hunter, that the “Super Croc” fossil recovered by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno has been extinct for millions of years.

Washington - Dinosaurs were not the only bullies in the neighbourhood 110 million years ago. Palaeontologists said on Thursday they discovered the fossilised remains of a gargantuan cousin of modern ...

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.

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

From left to right: teeth of a giant crocodile, Sarcosuchus imperator, a spinosaurid, a non-spinosaurid theropod (abelisaurid or carcharodontosaurid), a pterosaur, a hadrosaurid (a herbivorous ...