the reptile group that encompasses modern snakes and lizards. It is now also the oldest known squamate. The misunderstandings about this species all come down to features in its bones that are ...

The earliest known turtles date from 220 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than lizards, snakes or crocodiles. Of the many species alive ...

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

Some 80 million years before birds took flight, another group of creatures dominated the skies — the pterosaurs. These extraordinary reptiles were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight.

While only incomplete parts of its jaw have been discovered to date, the fossils of Threordatoth are important for understanding a little-known group of reptiles known as the procolophonids.

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

Number of hatchlings plummeted from 1.4 million to 349,000 in the Guaporé Valley, Rondônia, due to wildfires and drought ...

“These results showed that Vellbergia is more closely related to lepidosaurs (a group comprising lizards and snakes [squamates] on one side and the tuatara [rhynchocephalian] on the other) than to any ...