The Nile crocodile is a truly iconic animal. Or, more accurately, two iconic animals. As I’ve just written over at Nature News: The iconic Nile crocodile actually comprises two different species ...

A safari company in South Africa has shared footage showing a Nile crocodile maneuvering out of water carrying an enormous fish. (Footage posted below.) “A young Nile Crocodile surprised us by ...

Meanwhile, the group's finding halves the range of the traditional Nile crocodile. "It's going to shake things up," says Hekkala.

Nile crocodiles are also more dangerous to humans than their American counterparts. They were responsible for at least 493 attacks on people in their native range between 2010 and 2014, 354 of ...

Nile crocodiles are still spectacularly aggressive hunters, capable of holding prey underwater until it drowns. In 2023, 115 people were killed in attacks by Nile crocodiles across their range in ...

Conservationists working in Uganda are finding new areas that are home to one of the least known crocodilians in Africa, the pygmy Nile crocodile. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...

The iconic Nile crocodile actually comprises two different species — and they are only distantly related. The large east African Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is in fact more closely ...