Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures ...
Scientists believe that a pre-reptile that lived an estimated 260 million years ago may have been the first animal to walk on four legs. Analysis of fossils from the Bunostegos akokanensis show that ...
In the ongoing history of evolutionary change, there are few transformations as celebrated as the time when fossil humans gave up a life in the trees for one walking upright on the ground. It’s so ...
A 90-million-year-old snake skull discovered in Argentina shed light on how snakes lost their legs. The widespread belief is that these animals shredded their legs to swim better when they inhabited ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Stumpy” the African Spurrred tortoise was ...
Frogs' legs from large ranids at a large-scale reptile collector in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...
Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle - how snakes lost their limbs. The 90 million-year-old skull is giving researchers vital clues about how snakes ...
A woman is receiving treatment for suspected snake bites after a deadly, venomous, Eastern brown snake became 'completely wedged' onto her sneaker during a hike in south-west Sydney, Australia, on ...
Scientists believe that a pre-reptile, which lived 260 million years ago, may have been the first animal to walk on four legs. Analysis of fossils from the Bunostegos akokanensis, which were ...
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