Another giant reptile is clawing its way toward disrupting the South Florida ecosystem as an invasive species. The Nile monitor -- a semi-aquatic lizard equipped with razor claws that can grow up to 6 ...

More than 3 million years ago, when our ancient ancestors embodied by the iconic Lucy were roaming the African landscape, they would have feared a big, bad crocodile with a prominent lump on its head, ...

There are plenty of dangerous beasts out there whose teeth, claws, horns and hoofs can do some serious harm to a mere human. We’ve rounded up the deadliest of them all – from bears and crocodiles to ...

Crocodiles aren’t the only apex predators in their world - sometimes lions enter the same territory. When these two collide, it’s a fight between ambush and raw power. Nile crocodiles can reach ...

Few animal stories sit as uneasily between fact and folklore as the tale of Gustave, the massive Nile crocodile blamed for years of deadly attacks in Central Africa. Depending on who tells it, he was ...

There’s good reason why Rwanda goes by the poetic nickname ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’. This tropical country might be tiny — just a 10th of the size of the UK — but it’s blessed with a rampant ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

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National Geographic photographer Joshua Cogan returns to eastern Nevada to document the art, culture, and creative traditions shaped by the region’s high-desert landscape. At Spanish Ranch in ...

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process — just count up the growth rings in its fossilized bones. "We always thought that those rings were formed ...

A DNA study reveals crocs that lived in the Seychelles represented the westernmost population of saltwater crocodiles, having swam at least 1,800 miles to reach the island. When you purchase through ...