Jan 21, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists headed by Dr Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech has described a new genus and species of archosaur that lived in what is today...

Dec 18, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Xiao-hong Chen of the China Geological Survey’s Wuhan Center have discovered a new species of marine reptile that lived in...

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

Dinosaurs fit in between warm-blooded mammals and cold-blooded reptiles, according to a study reported in the journal Science. The study is the first to...

Feb 17, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists led by Dr Xiao-Chun Wu from Canadian Museum of Nature say they have discovered a new genus and species of reptile that lived in what is...

Sep 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Two skull fossils unearthed in Germany provide the first direct evidence that lepidosaurs – reptiles closely related to lizards, snakes and tuatara...

Jun 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. paleontologists have described a new giant species of lizard that lived in what is now Myanmar up to 40 million years ago. Reconstruction of Barbaturex...

Apr 3, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Chinese paleontologists led by Dr Tao He from the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou have identified a new species of thalattosaur from a fossil...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama. Adult...

Jun 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Wall-climbing robots, bioadhesives or other sticky substances can benefit greatly from a discovery about the self-cleaning and reuse abilities of a gecko’s...

Jun 7, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers at University of California in Berkeley has found that cockroaches can disappear in the blink of an eye by flinging themselves at...

May 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

British biologists have found that the tuatara, an iconic New Zealand reptile, chews its food in a way unlike any other animal on Earth. An adult of the...

May 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia. Reconstruction...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...

Apr 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists from Penn State University has discovered 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from islands in the Caribbean. The Anguilla...

Apr 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey has discovered a new species of slender-toed gecko on Manus...

Apr 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known fossil reptile embryos dating back about 280 million years. An artist’s reconstruction...

Feb 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. Bryan Fry with Hydrophis donaldii A paper,...

Feb 15, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Frank Glaw of the Zoological State Collection of Munich in Germany, has discovered four new species of...

Feb 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers has discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko on the East Montalivet Island off the north coast of the Kimberley region in Western...

Feb 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of biologists has discovered a new remarkable species of Andean semiaquatic lizard in southern Peru. An adult male Potamites montanicola (Germán...