A number of man-eating crocodiles have been discovered in the swamps of Florida, with US scientists keen to establish how they got there. The aggressive Nile crocodile can grow up to six metres ...

Nutria are recognized as an invasive species capable of destroying native vegetation and agricultural crops. Over the years, ...

A Nile crocodile sits in the small zoo in Democratic Republic of Congo, May 30, 2015. Federico Scoppa/AFP/Getty Images — -- Florida can now add man-eating crocs to its growing list of ...

The Nile crocodile is thought to be responsible for 275 to 745 attacks on people a year, most of them fatal, making it the third-most dangerous species in Africa, after the lion and hippopotamus ...

This 2012 photo provided by Joe Wasilewski shows a Nile crocodile he found in Homestead, Fla. University of Florida researchers recently published a paper showing that reptiles captured in 2009 ...

For decades, the people of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi have been terrorized by an enormous man-eating crocodile known as Gustave.. The Nile crocodile is rumored to have killed over 300 people and ...

A Nile crocodile that Joe Wasilewski found in Homestead, Florida. Wasilewski co-wrote a paper showing that this and two other recently captured reptiles are Nile crocs, a dangerous species native ...

Three Nile crocodiles documented in South Florida between 2009 and 2014. The man-eating reptiles were captured near Miami, University of Florida scientists say ...

Researchers have confirmed that three Nile crocodiles were captured near Miami, and they say it's possible more of the man-eating reptiles are still out there, although no one can say for sure.