If your bearded dragon has just laid eggs and you aren’t sure what to do, we’ve got you covered! Female beardies are known to ...

Unlike reptiles, amphibians lack scales, relying instead on their skin for protection and respiration. Amphibians lay eggs in water or damp environments. Amphibian eggs are soft and jelly-like ...

Reptiles in Oregon's high desert are quite widespread, though few are especially common. You may see lots at some times and ...

Cornified scales of reptiles increased their capacity to live in terrestrial environments. The stratum corneum is very thin, with little keratin. Skin is used for gas exchange. Thick keratin layer ...

Another two eggshell types came from ornithopod dinosaurs with beak-like mouths for grazing. No one expected to find so many ...

Turtles are classified as amniotes, along with other reptiles (including birds) and mammals. Like other amniotes, turtles breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in ...

And sometimes both like the green anaconda. Nearly all reptiles lay eggs. They also breathe air like we do, so those who live in water must come up for air. As reptiles are cold-blooded they need ...

But lay eggs on the beach they did by the dozens ... In fact, marine turtles were the only seagoing reptiles to escape extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, 65 million years ago.

Birds are also warm-blooded but lay eggs, and reptiles are cold-blooded egg-layers that rely on the Sun or another heat source to warm them up. The platypus was initially a challenge to classify due ...