It was Amelia Penny, a Ph.D. student on a paleontology field expedition in 2017, who first spotted a fossilized jaw jutting from rock on Scotland's Isle of Skye. The bones, wedged into a layer of ...
Globally, about 20 percent of reptile species are facing the threat of extinction. That's according to a recent study in the scientific journal "Nature." Geoff Bennett takes a deeper look now at ...
Paleontologists from Petrified Forest National Park and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History named and described a new species of "unusual, long-necked reptile" after microfossils of the ...
It's 21 October, which means it's International Reptile Awareness day—an occasion to promote education and conservation of these cold-blooded creatures. Reptiles are a group of vertebrates with skin ...
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