Imagine walking through a lush, green forest, sunlight dancing on the scales of a basking lizard. Nearby, a turtle glides ...

The tuatara looks like a lizard, but it isn’t one. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY. An obvious question at this point: if there is no such group of animals called reptiles, then why are there reptile ...

Animal behavior and cognition experts at the University of Lincoln, U.K., have made new discoveries about reptile sentience ...

Both birds and reptiles are descended from the group Reptilia, which are diapsids, or animals with two openings on each side of the skull. So from a phylogenetic standpoint, birds are reptiles ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

A conservation group threatens to sue unless the feds step up reptile and amphibian protections. The Center for Biological Diversity sent a notice Wednesday to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

The toothless Haptzegopteryx belonged to a flying reptile group known as Azhdarchidae. Usually reptiles in this group have very long necks, some of which can measure over eight feet in length.

Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles. The group began as the Massachusetts Herpetological Society in 1972 and held its first meetings at the Museum of Science in Boston.