Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
Scientists in China found a prehistoric "megapredator" so big that it had a 12-foot reptile preserved in its stomach.
The earliest known turtles date from 220 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than lizards, snakes or crocodiles. Of the many species alive ...
There was once a thriving group of reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. Rhynchocephalia is a reptile order that evolved around 240 million years ago. These reptiles used to live ...
Animal rescue organizations exist throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley, providing support to dogs, cats, rodents, and even farm ...
Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...
Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...
Within the synapsids, mammals arose from the mammal-like reptiles. The main evolutionary trend during the Mesozoic was the huge radiation of diapsids. The diapsids are a monophyletic group - including ...
Turtles are the oldest living group of reptiles on the planet. The ancestors of modern turtles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and evolved into more than 350 species living today — ...