An extinct reptile's oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on Earth, according to a new study.
Paleontology & Fossils
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Economic growth and globalization have connected the world's most distant places. Rapid trade and transport have boosted economic growth globally, but not without consequences: many species have been introduced to new regions, ...
Plants & Animals
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Researchers have run through near-perfect fossils of the world's first gliding reptile with a fine-toothed comb, and have untangled previously unknown facets to discover it was a change in tree canopy that likely facilitated ...
Evolution
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Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive jaws and teeth like those of killer whales, Thalassotitan hunted other marine reptiles—plesiosaurs, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 24, 2022
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Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming out party.
Evolution
Aug 19, 2022
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A land iguana that disappeared more than a century ago from one of the Galapagos Islands is reproducing naturally following its reintroduction there, Ecuador's environment ministry announced Monday.
Plants & Animals
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Invasions by amphibians and reptiles—when species spread beyond the regions they are native to—are estimated to have cost the global economy at least US$17.0 billion between 1986 and 2020, according to a study published ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2022
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Greek firefighters battled wildfires on three fronts Monday as flames destroyed around 2,200 hectares (5,400 acres) of woodland in one of the country's most important protected habitats.
Environment
Jul 25, 2022
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A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said.
Plants & Animals
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A trio of researchers, two with the University of Delhi and a third with the Dhar District, Higher Secondary School, has found the first-ever example of an ovum-in-ovo dinosaur egg. In their paper published in Scientific ...
