There is only one place where both American crocodiles and American alligators are found, and that is South Florida. But, as ...

The Jalisco government has rolled out a series of hands-on workshops and public forums to strengthen the human-crocodile ...

Crocodile populations in Jamaica have been decimated, due to habitat loss and poaching. One man created a crocodile sanctuary to help to bring the species back.

These findings challenge long-standing assumptions about the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus, which was thought to be a single widespread species. “Biodiversity is disappearing faster than we ...

Scientists have discovered two unknown species of crocodile on islands off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. They were always assumed to be American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus), but new genetic ...

Less Than 1,000 in Each Group. Professor Hans Larsson, a biology researcher leading the work, called the findings surprising. “We assumed Crocodylus acutus was one species stretching from Baja ...

Comparing these sequences to those of crocodiles across the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico’s Pacific coast, they found striking levels of genetic differentiation, leading the researchers to ...

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and highlight the urgent need for conservation efforts, the researchers say.

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and highlight the urgent need for conservation efforts, the researchers say. Advanced Search Home ...

The new species were found on Cozumel Island and Banco Chinchorro, a coral atoll, and are genetically distinct from the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus), according to a study published in ...

A Surprising Discovery. The discovery was made while studying the genetic diversity of crocodiles across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.José Avila-Cervantes, a graduate student at McGill ...

"We assumed Crocodylus acutus was a single species ranging from Baja California to Venezuela and across the Caribbean. Our study is the first to extensively explore genomic and anatomical ...