This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. As I stood underneath the tree in Australia’s Northern Territory, I thought about what the saltwater crocodile ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the summer of 2008 an American crocodile left Florida's Biscayne Bay, swam along a yacht-lined canal through the ...

Archaeologists study one of the best preserved crocodile specimens. Zuma Press/Cordon Press Egyptians saw crocodiles as intermediaries between humans and Sobek, the crocodile-headed god of water ...

But National Geographic Explorer Nizar Ibrahim and his ... including this Siamese crocodile. Lawrence Witmer, a paleontologist at nearby Ohio University, uses scans of modern animals to ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... A 17-foot, knobby-backed crocodile, buried with baby croc mummies in its mouth. Ibises in bundles with intricate ...

Nicolas Mathevon knows what boils a crocodile’s blood. In Guyana in 2007, when Mathevon played a recording of an infant croc distress call, a bellowing mama croc lunged at the boat he was in.

The National Geographic x Lacoste collaboration is one ... When René Lacoste chose a crocodile for his company’s logo, he could not imagine that this fascinating reptile might one day disappear.

The crocodile is over 16 feet long ... life in the wild is much more extreme for many crocodiles. According to National Geographic, estimates suggest roughly 200 humans a year are believed ...