In the evergreen forests of Vietnam, researchers identified two new species of assassin bugs, Epidaus batxatensis and Epidaus ...

Sea turtles have traversed the deep, blue sea for over 100 million years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Today, seven distinct species exist, according to seeturtles.org. Six of them ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

A single vertebra dug out of a boulder in a stream below a mountain in New Zealand in 1978 has now been found to have belonged to the oldest known sea reptile in the Southern Hemisphere, where no ...

Scientists have discovered the fossil of a giant "nightmarish" sea creature that hunted the oceans millions of years ago. The prehistoric lizard, Khinjaria acuta, was estimated to be about 26 feet ...

In the mountains of Vietnam, a new blind species was found buried under a rotten long. Screengrab from Tan Van Nguyen’s Facebook post What makes a lizard, a lizard? A rough, scaly body, long claws and ...

(Reuters) - Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur - flying reptile - boasting a bony crest at the ...

Science gets more fascinating by the day. From astronomers plumbing the depths of the known universe to paleontologists studying ancient life forms, these experts are using their skills to better ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ichthyosaurs were a hugely successful group of marine reptiles that flourished in the world's oceans for more than 150 million years, with many looking much like today's ...