Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

A brief audio slideshow explaining the characteristics of reptiles and how they are different to other animal types in this KS1 Science video on animals. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...

If you're wondering whether birds are reptiles, know this: ... This approach was developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 1730s, and ...

But based on Linnaean’s system, birds and reptiles belong to separate groups because of their different physical characteristics. Here, birds alone make up their own separate type of animal.

Physical characteristics. Given the large number of different types of pterosaurs, the physical characteristics of the winged reptiles varied widely depending on the genera.

Researchers from McGill University have made an unexpected discovery in Mexican waters. Two new species of reptiles, previously unknown, have been identified near the Yucatán Peninsula. These ...

A remarkable reptile-like creature with an unusual jaw that lived more than 200 million years ago has been described as a new species. Evidence of the species, Threordatoth chasmatos, was ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long tail, or about 1 meter (39 inches) long and weighing between 3 and 6 kg (7 to 13 pounds ...

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.