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Imagine walking through a lush, green forest, sunlight dancing on the scales of a basking lizard. Nearby, a turtle glides ...
In honor of the first-ever Snake Week, the Louisiana Amphibian and Reptile Enthusiasts and state wildlife officials will hold ...
Animal behavior and cognition experts at the University of Lincoln, U.K., have made new discoveries about reptile sentience ...
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
Generally hypoallergenic, quiet, clean and relatively undemanding, they’re popular with allergy sufferers, people living in small spaces and those with busy work schedules.
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.
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 ...
Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...
The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...
A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.
A new analysis of three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years reveals that they were created by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s.