National Reptile Awareness Day 2025 highlights how reptiles shape ecosystems; they show how nature balances under stress.

Viviparity, the live-bearing mode of reproduction, has evolved independently in several vertebrate lineages, including squamate reptiles and seahorses. In reptiles, evolutionary transitions from ...

If it was not part of the snake lineage, Breugnathair may have been an evolutionary dead end, with snake-like predatory ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

A remarkable fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, unearthed on Scotland's Isle of Skye, offers crucial insights into snake evolution. This 167-million-year-old reptile exhibits a unique blend of ...

Learn more about Xiphodracon goldencapensis, a long-snouted, sharp-toothed marine reptile that may serve as the missing link ...

A Devon fossil offers rare insight into early lizard evolution, revealing unexpected skull and tooth traits, say University ...

A rare Jurassic reptile known as Breugnathair elgolensis, was discovered on the Isle of Skye. This species has combining ...

Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. (Gabriel Ugueto via SWNS) By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that ...

MSRLSI copy gift of Dr. George R. Zug and signed by author VPAL copy gift of the author; signed by the author and inscribed for the NMNH Library "Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate ...