Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even in the time of giants but paleontologists turned to some of the ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores – but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

Advances in the generation, retrieval, and analysis of phylogenetic data have enabled researchers to create phylogenies that contain many thousands of taxa. These "macrophylogenies"—large trees that ...

University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, ...

In a pioneering study, Dr Fortunate Mafeta Phaka from North-West University has unveiled the intricate indigenous naming and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the ...

Reptiles are an evolutionary old and diverse class of vertebrates (see also) who are used in different sorts of research, some of which can be harmful to their psychological well being. Various ...

Neuroscience demonstrates that all reptiles possess brains and neuro-capacities comparable to our own. In this interview, Gordon M. Burghardt, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and ...

NEW YORK - Dwarf dinosaurs? It sounds like the old George Carlin joke about jumbo shrimp: two words that just don't go together. But fossils from northern Germany have revealed a dinosaur that evolved ...

Agriculture, logging and urban development pose significant risks to reptiles. More than a fifth of the world's reptiles are at risk of extinction in the coming decades due to human activity, ...