Alligator and crocodile news, features and articles

This ancient croc's legs were likely as long as a human's.

Scientists sank three alligator corpses into the Gulf of Mexico to see whether bottom-dwelling sea creatures could eat them. They did — handily.

Only in Florida.

The creature survived the crash and wandered dazed in circles around a highway exit in Tallahassee before a trapper turned up.

In the food deserts of the deep ocean, it doesn't take long for scavengers to find a bonanza when it lands.

I, a crocodile scientist, am a woman in conservation. And here's why we need more women in this field.

Alligators in an icy pond in North Carolina have taken up "snorkeling" to survive the cold winter.

Gator eats gator! Photos show an alligator nomming a smaller gator in a Texas swamp.

Australian parks and wildlife rangers captured a 15-foot 5-inch-long, 1,300-lb. crocodile Monday (July 9). Experts told us how the animal got so big.

A teenage girl rafting in a creek got the fright of her life when an alligator nearly as long as two grand-size pianos chased her up a tree in Florida's Ocala National Forest on Friday (June 29).