The Australian bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Brain Research / G. Laurent Dragons and Brain Evolution These days, dragons are keeping…
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Artistic reconstruction of the reptile adaptive radiation in a terrestrial ecosystem during the warmest period in Earth’s history. The image depicts a massive, big-headed, carnivorous…
Artist’s representation of Thalassotitan atrox. Credit: Andrey Atuchin Paleontologists have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator…
Artistic reconstruction of the reptile adaptive radiation in a terrestrial ecosystem during the warmest period in Earth’s history. Image depicts a massive, big-headed, carnivorous erythrosuchid…
Artist’s impression of spinosaurus and plesiosaur in a river. Credit: Dr. Nick Longrich/University of Bath Plesiosaur fossils discovered in an ancient riverbed suggests some species,…
The research team also discovered that protective phenotypes, like the hard shells of most turtle species, might delay the aging process and, in some circumstances,…
A yacare caiman (Caiman yacare). Reptiles, the majority of which are predators, are cold-blooded and scaly animals. Their ranks include some of the most deadly…
Potamites montanicola, classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ by automated the assessment method and as ‘Data Deficient’ by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Credit: Germán…
Phalotris shawnella. Credit: Jean-Paul Brouard A magnificent non-venomous snake, previously unknown to science, was discovered in Paraguay and described by researchers from the Paraguayan NGO…
New research challenges the current consensus that the radiation of squamates – a key modern group of reptiles that includes lizards and snakes – happened…
Illustration of an Elasmosaurus, an extinct marine reptile in the genus of Plesiosaur. A new research study finds that large bodies helped extinct marine reptiles…
200 million-year-old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea…
Boa constrictors breathe with different sections of rib cage when constricting prey and digesting dinner. The later stages of pregnancy can make life difficult as…
An artist’s interpretation of Quetzalcoatlus northropi wading in the water. The latest research describes this species of Quetzalcotalus as having a lifestyle similar to today’s…
The skull of the first giant creature to ever inhabit the Earth, the ichthyosaur “Cymbospondylus youngorum” currently on display at the Natural History Museum of…
Common Origin: Venoms in Snakes and Salivary Protein in Mammals Evolved From the Same Ancestral Gene
Common Origin: Venoms in Snakes and Salivary Protein in Mammals Evolved From the Same Ancestral Gene
A new study has found that a class of toxins found in snake and mammalian venom evolved from the same ancestral gene. A new study…
Life reconstructions of Kyhytysuka sachicarum from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia. Credit: Dirley Cortés A new 130-million-year-old swordfish-shaped marine reptile fossil sheds light on the…
Mosasaurs are a group of marine reptiles that would have lived in the Cretaceous Period. Credit: Thomas Miller (c) / Badlands Natural History Association Researchers…
Tupandactylus navigans (artist’s rendering). Credit: Victor Beccari Complete skeleton provides first look at entire body of Tupandactylus navigans. A fossil acquired in a police raid…
Life reconstruction of Taytalura in its natural habitat with the extinct conifer Rhexoxylon in Ischigualasto (Argentina) during the Late Triassic, hiding from the primitive dinosaur…