STORY: Australia’s Northern Territory– the setting of the country’s top-grossing movie ‘Crocodile Dundee’– is currently grappling with a booming crocodile population. Though the animals were nearly ...

Freshwater crocodiles die every year in Australia from eating poisonous cane toads that humans introduced to the continent. Now scientists have... To save wild crocodiles in Australia, scientists gave ...

As if the wildlife in Australia today isn’t intimidating enough, tens of millions of years ago, visitors would have had to deal with an additional nightmarish scenario—crocs jumping out of trees.

There’s sad news to report from the Australian animal kingdom. Burt, the saltwater crocodile that rose to fame with a cameo in the 1980s action movie “Crocodile Dundee,” who had a fiery temper coupled ...

In southeast Queensland, roughly 250 kilometers from Brisbane, lies the tiny town of Murgon. Located on Wakka Wakka Country, it's home to about 2,000 people—and one of the most important fossil sites ...

Australian police said Tuesday that they believed the human remains found inside a massive crocodile were those of a missing 40-year-old New South Wales man. The man fell from a steep river bank into ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Authorities in Australia have caught a saltwater crocodile measuring almost 5 metres (16.4 ft), one of the biggest on record, to stop it from reaching a populated area, the ...

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Across northern Australia, freshwater crocodiles are dying in droves, with some populations down by 70%. That's because the animals are eating a kind of super-poisonous toad that humans brought to the ...