Heat and cold reshape fertility in reptiles, from scrambled sperm to sex reversal, with lessons for evolution under climate ...

Biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate and is driven by human activity: contamination, greenhouse gases and extreme ...

Many of us know snakes are ectothermic reptiles that regulate their body temperature behaviorally by using shade, burrows, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exotic zoo in the U.K. is celebrating some really special babies. While all babies are special, the casquehead iguanas ...

Labord's chameleon, native to western Madagascar, holds the record as the shortest-lived vertebrate, surviving only four to five months. This reptile' ...

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 ...

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 ...