"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

Be honest, how effective do you consider crocodile dung would be as a contraceptive? It's one of the less bizarre items in a new Radio 4 programme on the history of family planning. Some of the ...

"She's probably the best Egyptian art historian of our time ... Nearby, an alabaster statue of a crocodile and two more statues of Amenhotep III, also in alabaster, wait to be cleaned.

The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine protection. The symbol is linked to Horus, a deity. Myth says his eye ...

The Australian Border Force has intercepted a foreign fisher who it believes was attacked by a crocodile in NT waters. The fisher was taken to hospital after authorities found the illegal vessel ...

The king cobra, the world's longest venomous snake, faces the powerful crocodile in a battle of apex predators. While the cobra boasts potent venom and agility, the crocodile's immense size ...

Utah researchers say they believe they now know how existing crocodile, alligator and gharial species survived a pair of mass extinction events — information that could fuel future research.

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...