Recently crocodiles have been in the news in Costa Rica. There has been an increase in crocodile sightings and within the last year or so folks are starting to wonder if there’s a problem with the ...

The .425 Westley Richards rested solidly in the fork of a paperbark tree. In a small opening I saw a water buffalo slowly walking toward the swamp. At 125 yards the shot was simple, and I put it right ...

Congressman Leslye Bojorges of Costa Rica’s PUSC political party presented a bill to allow the controlled hunting of crocodiles and caimans in Costa Rica. Bojorges seeks a change to the Wildlife ...

When a crocodile starts floating upside down and waving like it's in an aquatic mime act, the internet inevitably loses its mind. But is this viral video of a cunning predator pulling off the ultimate ...

CANBERRA - Australian authorities are hunting a large saltwater crocodile in the country's remote far north that is believed to have killed a British man while he was snorkeling. The world's top miner ...

Researchers in Australia concerned about the sharp decline of freshwater crocodiles who eat a toxic, invasive toad species have come up with a stomach-churning way for the reptiles to help themselves.

How to catch a crocodile? In this drawing, the Flemish artist Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (1523 —1605) shows us one particularly bold method. Hunters sit astride their prey, forcing long ...

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Kaitlin Barham receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - Equity Trustees Charitable Foundation & the Ecological Society of Australia funded ...