A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

Researchers landed on an uninhabited island known for its archaeological ruins and started looking for snakes, lizards and other reptiles.

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

It sounds like a paleontological crime scene: dozens of ancient amphibian fossils found buried relatively close together. The ...

Researchers from the U.S. have found out that dozens of amphibians, as large as today’s alligators, met a shared fate in a ...

Using environmental DNA analysis and traditional fishing techniques, researchers are seeking answers about the current ...

You know the feeling. It’s getting close to bedtime, you get sleepy, and you start yawning automatically. You may even find yourself yawning in the middle of the day in a mid-day lull. These yawns ...

Early birds were also better able to survive the cold conditions after the asteroid strike than many reptiles. This is because like mammals, birds are also warm-blooded, meaning they can regulate ...

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates.

Using the transparent skin of axolotls, an aquatic amphibian widely used in dermatology research, they uncovered a different mechanism for dermal collagen formation. Since collagen was already ...