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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama.
Adult...
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...
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...
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...
Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia.
Reconstruction...
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...
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...
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...
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known fossil reptile embryos dating back about 280 million years.
An artist’s reconstruction...
Australian scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia.
Bryan Fry with Hydrophis donaldii
A paper,...
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...
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...
A team of biologists has discovered a new remarkable species of Andean semiaquatic lizard in southern Peru.
An adult male Potamites montanicola (Germán...