Three dead dogs, and Chris Marin has had it. He's lived with his family along a canal just south of Miami for several years, and never had a fear of the water — until now.
Police confirmed that a boy who vanished from an Australian river edge was attacked and eaten by a crocodile.
Drinkers at an Outback watering hole may have wondered if perhaps they'd had one too many when they were greeted by a crocodile at the pub's door.
Officials at the Isle of Palms ordered everyone out of the water because of a dangerous animal. But it wasn't a shark this time.
A city official says an expert is searching for a crocodile spotted in a river in central Germany. Hildesheim city spokesman Horst Richter said two municipal employees got a five-minute glimpse of the reptile Monday on a backwater of the Innerste river.
A crocodile attacked and killed a man who was under arrest for alleged illegal logging in Myanmar, the country's state-run newspaper reported Sunday.
A man rescued his wife from the jaws of a crocodile in remote northern Australia by jumping on its back, police said Thursday.
A dwarf crocodile has been snatched from the Bergen aquarium by apparently knowledgeable thieves who broke into its cage and walked out with the 27-inch reptile named Taggen, the aquarium director said Monday.
Pointy-nosed crocodiles may have joined sharks as the dominant predators in the world's oceans some 62 million years ago, according to Brazilian scientists who on Wednesday unveiled one of the most complete skeletons found yet of the prehistoric animals.
The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
A man was bitten on the face by a crocodile when he accidentally collided with the reptile after diving through a wave at a surf beach in northeastern Australia, a newspaper reported Friday.
Two men hoping to catch fish in Malaysia were stunned when they found a 13-foot crocodile tangled in their net, officials said Thursday.
An animal trainer who brought a crocodile to the beach to drum up interest in a circus got some unwelcome publicity when it broke free and made off into the Azov Sea.
A zoo worker had his forearm reattached Thursday after his colleagues recovered the severed limb from the mouth of a 440-pound Nile crocodile, an official said.
Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides part of Mexico and the United States, authorities reported on Sunday.
Stingrays are strange-looking but normally shy creatures whose defenses include poisonous, serrated barbs in their tails.
A 14 1/2-foot crocodile mauled a chainsaw a worker was using Friday to clear up debris left by a tropical storm that lashed northern Australia. While the croc and worker were both uninjured, the saw's woodcutting days are over.
A University of Washington medical professor who moved to Botswana to alleviate a doctor shortage was killed when a crocodile dragged him from a canoe, his family and colleagues said.
A 6.5-foot saltwater crocodile leapt out of a roadside culvert and slammed into the side of a passing car, authorities said Thursday.
"Costa Rican animal lover 'Chito' swims, plays and even feeds 'Pocho' the giant crocodile in what is one of the world's most unlikely friendships."
What do you get when you combine a crocodile with a magnet? Answer: bad navigation. For homeowners in the Miami-Dade area, it's a beautiful thing.
Children spent 11 days playing with the remains of what they thought was a crocodile in a creek before a parent discovered that the body was human, it emerged yesterday
Passengers on an Egypt Air flight were terrified when a baby crocodile escaped out of a passenger's hand luggage and ran wildly down the aisle.
Transporting exotic animals in and out of the Egypt is illegal, and none of the passengers on Friday's flight claimed ownership of the baby croc.
An ancient fossil crocodile coated in armadillo-like body armor was unveiled yesterday at an environmental museum in Brazil.
A French village is on the alert after several sightings of a crocodile were reported in a local pond and police and local anglers have joined the hunt for the elusive creature dubbed the "Loch Ness monster of the Vosges."
A pilot dragged his injured passenger to safety after their helicopter crashed in crocodile-infested mudflats near Darwin last night, according to reports.
Hunting is still a pretty popular pastime in France, at least in rural parts of the country.
Australia's Northern Territory may allow the collection of more crocodile eggs and limited safari hunts of the reptiles - but not a large-scale slaughter - following a spate of fatal attacks on humans.
If you're hoping to make record time doing laps in the pool, perhaps you should consider employing a training technique that one swim instructor in Australia's Northern Territory claims yields record-breaking results: a crocodile.
Veterinarians in Miami have successfully fitted a badly injured crocodile with metal plates and 41 Frankensteinian screws on its skull. More Articles
MANILA, Philippines - Caraga police on Friday sought the help of government agencies and experts in hunting down a 25-foot-long crocodile that killed a 10-year-old girl in Agusan del Sur last early this month.
A crocodile decapitated a 10-year-old girl in a Philippine lake after knocking over her canoe, police have said.
"A crocodile has bitten off a 10-year-old girl's head after knocking over the canoe she was travelling in. " i don't think i like crocodiles!
A GIRL aged ten was decapitated by a monster crocodile which capsized her boat.
Police have confirmed that Jeremy Doble, who vanished from an Australian river edge last week, was attacked and eaten by a crocodile.
The remains of a five-year-old boy who vanished from an Australian river edge were found in a crocodile's belly, police said today.
Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the beast's 13m-long body and 1,140kg (2,500lb) weight make it the largest snake on record.
Known as a 'water monster,' this Axolotl salamander is just a few years away from extinction, according to recent warnings by scientists.
SYDNEY (AFP) -- A crocodile which was captured after menacing tourist beaches near Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef has died from eating too many plastic bags, officials said.
The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera.
The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday.
A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile. Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.