Those other first animals tended to their young, as do most of their descendants, such as birds, reptiles ... for a more modern life. Insects evolved hardened eggs and with them a special ...

Therapsids were a diverse bunch: some were massive predators, while others were small insect-eaters ... Understanding where we came from—egg-laying reptiles, not dinosaurs—gives us a deeper ...

Fossilized footprints discovered in Victoria, Australia, are rewriting reptile evolutionary history. Dating back 359 million ...

If you’re headed down to the Cape this summer, you’ll likely run into some noisy guests. Cicadas, from the 14th brood, are ...

reptiles, and even birds, he adds. Most stream insects use rocks protruding above the water as runways to land on, then crawl underwater and attach their eggs to the underside of the rocks.

The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may ... "Whether the first amniote babies were born in parchment eggs or as live, snapping little insect-eaters is unknown, but this adaptive parental ...

The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live ... “Whether the first amniote babies were born in parchment eggs or as live, snapping little insect-eaters is unknown, but this adaptive ...

They lay hand-shelled eggs or give birth to live young. There are about 9,500 species of reptile worldwide ... of its time in the branches of trees. Insects, and sometimes snails, make up the ...

Mammals give birth to babies, reptiles pop out eggs, right? An ancient fossil unearthed in China suggests the latter wasn't always true. Paleontologists have found a 245-million-year-old fossil of ...

Paleontologists recently unearthed rare evidence of parasitic infection in a reptile that lived around ... they found tiny organic structures resembling eggs. The objects measured 0.002 to ...