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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, notable for its unique teeth and jaw, found at a fossil hotspot ...

Reptile reproduction also depends on temperature. Only boas and pythons give birth to live young. The other species lay their eggs in a simple nest, and leave. The young hatch days to months later.

Not all pythons belong to one homogeneous group. Modern classification of snakes places the family Pythonidae under numerous ...

A new study has startling conclusions about how, on smaller islands in the Caribbean where human impact was greatest, extinctions have led to the loss of up to two-thirds of the supports for the ...

Ammonites Ammonites came in a range of shapes and sizes from the truck tyre sized Tropaum imperator to species the size of a ...

Researchers from McGill University have made an unexpected discovery in Mexican waters. Two new species of reptiles, previously unknown, have been identified near the Yucatán Peninsula. These living ...

A new species of small, venomous reptile, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, has been discovered in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation in northeastern Arizona. The findings, recently published in PeerJ Life ...

As an epicenter of biodiversity, Vietnam hosts a wide array of reptile species. But new research shows that many species that occur nowhere else on the planet are poorly known and lacking protection.

Paleontologists have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile from Germany's world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, expanding our understanding of prehistoric ocean ecosystems that ...