X-ray scans of the 345-million-year-old Scottish fossil found internal gills and a mouth full of tiny teeth, a new Nature study says.

Hidden anatomy inside a crushed Scottish fossil overturns decades of thinking about when reptile-like adaptations first ...

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Meet Westlothiana lizziae, also known as “Lizzie,” a tiny Scottish fossil that spent decades holding the crown as one of the oldest known reptiles. At roughly 345 million years old, Lizzie seemed to ...

While most reptiles are wild, many are kept as pets because of their reputation for being mysterious and exotic. Having an unconventional pet comes with its own concerns, though, that you'll need to ...

A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and ...

“Charismatic megafauna” describes many people’s favorite animals: blue whales, giant pandas, elephants, penguins, and other large beasts of the natural world. Many of these animals are hunted to ...

The Tokay gecko is a species native to Southeast Asia, where a large percentage of traded reptiles come from Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Live reptiles are easy to buy online.

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

An extinct reptile’s oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on Earth, according to a new study. In fact, paleontologists at Yale, Sam ...

“Jurassic Park made everyone want to have their own dinosaur in their house,” says a reptile enthusiast in the trailer for HBO’s ‘Monsters of God’ Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, ...