Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the main attractions at the new Daytona Aquarium & Rainforest Adventure is the Reptile Den, where guests can see an ...

Caimans are highly efficient ambush predators, using stillness, explosive acceleration, and crushing bite force to dominate their aquatic environments. In Brazil’s vast wetlands, shifting ecosystems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Move over alligators. And crocodiles. There's another reptile that's been quietly making itself at home in South Florida for the ...

There's a lot University of Florida researchers know about spectacled caimans. But there's a lot they don't know. Yet. So they can use your help. Alligators, crocodiles beware. Spectacled caimans ...

You've probably heard about the invasive Burmese python that is rapidly expanding its range in the Florida Everglades. While the battle against the pythons is widely publicized, a smaller, less ...

In a South American swamp, a broad-snouted caiman floats along a river on a hot day. She's not only looking for prey, but listening closely for the calls of her babies. High up on the bank, a mound of ...

Jan. 15 (UPI) --Alligators and caimans are closely related, but their evolutionary history is complicated. And because the two groups look so similar, untangling their evolving relations across time ...

A new study of two approximately 52-million-year-old fossil finds from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, U.S., has fit them into the evolutionary history of crocodiles. Biogeologists Jules Walter, ...

VEGA BAJA, Puerto Rico -- When heavy rains begin to pelt a flood-prone neighborhood along Puerto Rico's north coast, people start sharpening their knives and preparing their lassoes. The floods herald ...

Capybaras and caimans share the same waters peacefully, and research shows why predators keep their distance.

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro favela face a dangerous challenge in their quest for clean drinking water: a canal infested with hungry caimans, South America's alligator cousins. With a severe drought ...