Biologists have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucat n Peninsula. The ...

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North American coasts in the Cretaceous. Paleontologists have been on the trail ...

A mystery has been building in the Caribbean. Decades ago, fossilized teeth were discovered in Cuba dating to about 18 million years ago. They were small but tapered, sharp and serrated. They were the ...

Paleontologists have identified the remains of a sebecid, a massive, greyhound-like crocodile that survived well after the ...

Long thought extinct, sebecid fossils found in the Dominican Republic are rewriting what we know about ancient predators in ...

This lineage of terrestrial crocs, called sebecids, lasted longer than previously believed, according to researchers who ...

Scientists claim to have cracked the code that led to a massive prehistoric reptile known as the ‘terror crocodile’ to become ...

Shifting Deinosuchus away from alligatoroids “fits much better with our current understanding of ecological flexibility among the extinct and living crocodiles,” she added. “This new paper ...