These help prevent water loss and protect them from predators. There are four main reptile groups. Each group — called an order — has unique characteristics. Reptiles have adapted to almost ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Where did the first dinosaurs come from? A new paper suggests that their elusive remains may lie buried in some of the ...

The earliest known turtles date from 220 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than lizards, snakes or crocodiles. Of the many species alive ...

“Reptile brains are smaller than the brains of birds or mammals ... Within birds, the new study finds that so-called core land birds, a group that includes woodpeckers, falcons, and parrots, also have ...

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

The new habitat at the zoo home to a group of six tuataras A group of ancient three-eyed reptiles, from a species that dates back before the dinosaurs, have been welcomed at a zoo. The reptiles ...