A recent viral Instagram video shows a saltwater crocodile in Indonesia acting unusually by waving its feet in the air in a way that makes the reptile look like a drowning human.

Crocodilians are often called living fossils, with their lineage dating back about 95 million years. They are members of the ...

Saltwater crocodiles were on the brink of extinction in the early 1970s due to hunting. Salties are now a protected but vulnerable species with roughly 20,000 to 30,000 in Queensland .

The 2,369-pound (1,075-kilogram) crocodile is suspected of attacking several people and killing two. The animal, named Salty survived capture and is being held in a temporary enclosure in the ...

The saltwater crocodile measured in at a whopping 4.4-meters (14.5-feet) and a total of 350-kilograms (770-pounds) — marking the largest croc in years to be trapped in Australia’s Northern ...

A crocodile with a motorcycle tire stuck around its neck basks on a riverbank in Palu, Central Sulawesi in 2020. The wild crocodile that has the used tire stuck around its neck for six years has ...

A male saltwater crocodile approached a female saltie — as they’re known in Australia — in the same enclosure at Australia Zoo. He snapped at her aggressively.