Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians, plus new niches. The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

The evolution of viviparity, or live birth, in reptiles and seahorses is a fascinating area of study that sheds light on how reproductive strategies have adapted over time. Viviparity has evolved ...

An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs. The complete specimen discovered in Germany finally shows how now extinct ...

These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

Paleontologists Discover a Rare 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Marine Reptile, Provide an Insight Into Its Evolution A great ...

Recent research has focused on various aspects of this evolution, including the impact of climate change on reptile evolution, the adaptations of certain dinosaur species to aquatic environments ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

Field-defining discoveries can come from new and unexpected places,” palaeontologist Natalia Jagielska told IFLScience.

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...