Large‐bodied predators are well represented among the world's threatened and
endangered species. A significant body of literature shows that in terrestrial and marine …

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Abstract The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an ancient icon of both cultural and
scientific interest. The species is emblematic of the great civilizations of the Nile River valley …

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died
out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we …

Alligators are the most northerly distributed of the extant Crocodilia. Reproducing
populations are found as far north as 35° latitude in the freshwater marshes and rivers of …

Living crocodilians include the 24 species of alligators, caimans, crocodiles and gharials.
These large semi-aquatic ambush predators are ubiquitous in freshwater ecosystems …

Background Relict populations of Crocodylus niloticus persist in Chad, Egypt and
Mauritania. Although crocodiles were widespread throughout the Sahara until the early 20th …

Relationships of the newly discovered dwarf crocodiles from Mauritania were inferred from
mitochondrial 12S sequences. Specimens from 13 different Crocodylus niloticus populations …

Taxonomy: Pending the formal description of the newly recognised west and central African
clade as a new species, this account refers to C. niloticus as previously understood. Many …

It is generally assumed that the Neogene crocodylian fauna of Europe has been
represented only by brevirostrine alligatoroid Diplocynodon and longirostrine false gharials …