In a remarkable display of interspecies compassion, an elephant defends an injured lion from a pair of hyenas in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Photographer Morne du Plessis captured this ...

Over three million years ago, the wetlands of ancient Ethiopia were dominated by an ambush predator that dwarfed early human ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of crocodile, called Crocodylus lucivenator. They lived on the territory of modern Ethiopia about 3.4–3 million years ago and posed a deadly threat to human ...

OUR early human ancestors faced a life-threatening monster lurking in rivers and lakes. Scientists have uncovered evidence of a giant mega-croc beast that measured up to a whooping 15 feet in length.