Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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 ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

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 ...

Since 2005, Parkhurst has operated his own rescue organization, Hudson Valley Reptile and Rescue, out of his Saugerties home. It focuses on a frequently vilified group of animals: reptiles.

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...

Within the synapsids, mammals arose from the mammal-like reptiles. The main evolutionary trend during the Mesozoic was the huge radiation of diapsids. The diapsids are a monophyletic group - including ...