A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

There have been surprising revelations in the crocodile world as of late: DNA analysis has revealed that two reptiles once characterized as American crocodiles are actually two separate species. The ...

A 166-million-year-old reptile that lived during the time of the dinosaurs was believed to have swum in ancient lagoons, but ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

Oklahoma is often thought of as an ecological melting pot, where forests, prairies, and wetlands meet to provide habitat for ...

Video taken by Roxanne Fanagan showed the reptile slithering through the sand. Flanagan said she and a coworker took their kids to the beach on Saturday after attending a local event. She was in the ...

Six venomous snake species are native to Florida, including three rattlesnake species. Snakes are most active during warmer months, starting in the late spring and carrying on throughout the summer.

Athletic, crocodile-like reptiles with bladed teeth made their last stand in the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago. New fossils unearthed in the Dominican Republic suggest the reptile ...

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. The list includes 136 frog and ...

While patrolling Surfside Beach early Monday morning, Officer Jimmy McDaniel witnessed something extraordinary: a Kemp's ridley sea turtle—the rarest sea turtle species in the world—resting ...