Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

These sebecids were the last survivors of a group of ancient crocodile relatives called Notosuchia. Unlike today’s crocodiles ...

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 ...

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

Crocs pursuing prey on land is difficult to imagine, isn't it? However, there used to be swift, dreadful crocodile cousins in ...

Three decades ago, scientists began to find razor-sharp teeth from predators that had no business being there.

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...

The fossils found in 2023 included a single tooth and two spine bones. The tooth matches those of South American sebecids.

Sebecids belonged to a group of prehistoric crocodilians called Notosuchia ... With dinosaurs out of the way, sebecids thrived in South America as the new apex predator, able to move quickly ...