At a conference in Washington, D.C., in 2000, the secretoglobin super family of proteins was named to classify proteins with structural similarities to its founding member uteroglobin. Now, 25 years later, there is still ...
Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down when pterosaurs adapted to live on the ground.
The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in nine South African cultures. ...
In 1936, a Central Valley teenager made an incredible discovery.
Prescribed burning in the Mount Lofty Ranges to reduce bushfire risks may be threatening the survival and biodiversity of skinks and other reptiles.
The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum in ancient lagoons, new research reveals it spent its time climbing trees instead.
Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter coloration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown in a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The study, published in Nature Communications, suggests ...
Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes the incredible range of fossils which were sucked into a neptunian dike, a deep, fissure-like cave ...
A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is providing crucial evidence about the diversification of these ancient marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic.
