Journeying back to the Jurassic era, scientists used cutting-edge tech to uncover the secrets about Orthosuchus stormbergi, a small, early crocodile ancestor. Their results are published in the ...

Their ancestors were around during the Jurassic period as aquatic crocodiles that lived about 200 million years ago. The life expectancy of the saltwater crocodile is 70 years. The oldest one on ...

The rise of the dinosaurs began in the Triassic. There were already predecessors of modern mammals, and predatory crocodile relatives encountered giant amphibians. Research into the environment ...

The crocodile surfaces and grabs part of the animal ... Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to 3.9 million years ago. Some researchers ...

The crocodile surfaces and grabs part of the animal ... Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans, gorillas and ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...