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 ...

Picture the length of a full-sized transport truck parked along a wild ancient riverbank. Now imagine a crocodile just as long, quietly waiting beneath the water’s surface. That’s the kind of scale we ...

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.

Sarcosuchus imperator was a prehistoric species of crocodile that lived around 110 million years ago in the Mid Cretaceous. Fossilized remains found in the Sahara Desert suggest that this creature ...

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 ...

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.

It weighed 17,500 pounds (7,938 kilograms), was 40 feet (12.2 meters) long, and probably ate dinosaurs for dinner. Erickson and his colleagues extrapolated the bite force of SuperCroc from data they ...

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.

Some 110 million years ago a giant crocodile, which grew larger than a school bus and munched dinosaurs, reigned supreme over mid-Africa's inland rivers and swamps. Perhaps the largest croc ever, it ...