This fossil of an ancient winged reptile, bought from a farmer in China's Liaoning province, tells a dramatic tale. About 160 million years ago, a female pterosaur fractured its wing and sank to the ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

An unexpected discovery in Antarctica is challenging long-standing scientific assumptions. A massive egg fossil, recently identified as soft-shelled and possibly belonging to a mosasaur, may reveal ...

Deep in the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, buried beneath more than 60 million years of sediment, scientists have uncovered a fossil that is reshaping the scientific narrative about how ancient ...

In a finding that upends decades of scientific theory on reptile reproduction, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that female boa constrictors can squeeze out babies ...

A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and ...

Papers from a symposium held June 5-6, 1978, at Arizona State University, Tempe, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Contents The reproductive biology of reptiles: an ...

The act of reptile reproduction suggests that dinosaurs and pterosaurs may have been capable of parthenogenesis, too, much like the creatures in “Jurassic Park.” By Veronique Greenwood In January 2018 ...

A very special clutch of snakelets have just arrived at Memphis Zoo, USA, born through a methodology that marks a world-first for reptile reproduction. They are Louisiana pinesnakes (Pituophis ...

"First published in the United States in 2001 ... reprinted with corrections in 2002." Authors' introduction -- How this book works -- What is an amphibian? -- What is a reptile? -- Amphibian ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Among reptiles, reproduction in the absence of males is often assumed to result from long-term sperm storage. Through the application of ...