This fossil of an ancient winged reptile, bought from a farmer in China's Liaoning province, tells a dramatic tale. About 160 million years ago, a female pterosaur fractured its wing and sank to the ...

An unexpected discovery in Antarctica is challenging long-standing scientific assumptions. A massive egg fossil, recently identified as soft-shelled and possibly belonging to a mosasaur, may reveal ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

Thirteen Aldabra giant tortoise hatchlings are thriving in the Seychelles after emerging from the first successful artificial ...

In a finding that upends decades of scientific theory on reptile reproduction, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that female boa constrictors can squeeze out babies ...

A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and ...

Researchers studied two lizard types and found that heat rewrites their breeding biology. Madagascar's Guibé's ground gecko ...

The act of reptile reproduction suggests that dinosaurs and pterosaurs may have been capable of parthenogenesis, too, much like the creatures in “Jurassic Park.” By Veronique Greenwood In January 2018 ...

Papers from a symposium held June 5-6, 1978, at Arizona State University, Tempe, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Contents The reproductive biology of reptiles: an ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

When Jurassic Park hit theaters, one of the most memorable lines came from Dr. Ian Malcolm, warning that “life finds a way.” ...