A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...

Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing ...

By analyzing the flowerpot snake's unique genome, scientists are uncovering how the tiny reptile repairs its DNA and prevents harmful mutations. The findings provides valuable insights into genetic ...

These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

During the Carboniferous era, there were many amphibians; the first reptile evolved from labyrinthodont ancestor. Amniotic egg appears very early in reptilian evolution. Egg has several special ...

The nearly complete specimen of a known plesiosaur species is opening scientists’ eyes to the diversification of these ...

Cryptoclidids are a genus of plesiosaur reptiles that lived during the Jurassic Period. A Pivotal Plesiosaur Thanks to P. wildi and the MH7 fossil, researchers can now infer that the Jurassic Period ...

"Our findings challenge conventional views on upper jaw evolution," the researchers said in a statement. Compared with our distant cousins the reptiles, the faces of mammals are made more complex ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...