Reptile eggs are an interesting area of study, but what makes the distinction between snakes and lizards regarding their eggs ...
It is easy to assume that an egg found outdoors belongs to a bird. Most people do. Eggs feel familiar, almost ordinary, until ...
California’s diverse climate and sprawling urban areas have made the western state an unexpected hotspot for non-native ...
Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.
He had told me the chicken evolved millions of years after the egg. Amphibians were the first vertebrates to crawl up from ...
For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...
The Rio Grande cooter can't catch a break. Rivers that once sustained the turtle species, native to New Mexico, Texas and ...
From chasing geckos as a young boy in Kandy to studying crocodiles in Australia and much more, behavioural ecologist and ...
Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.
A fossilized dinosaur egg discovered in central India has turned out to be even stranger than it first appeared. Inside the ...
A harmless snake emerging this spring is earning a zombie reputation across America, using dramatic death acting, strange ...