"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

Birds aren’t the only egg-layers on the planet; there are reptiles, fish, and even a few mammals that lay eggs. Watch this video survey of egg-laying animals, and be prepared to be surprised by a few!

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

The Aesculapian snakes, the largest in the UK, have a 'thriving' population in one part of Wales, where they have become part ...

Britain’s largest wild snake is “thriving” in the part of North Wales they have colonised, a study has concluded. Around 240 ...

On the seventh stop, Minister for Tourism Andrew Powell welcomed more than 50 industry and community stakeholders in Bundaberg, who shared their ideas to help shape the future of the tourism industry.

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

The reptiles are a year-round treat for snorkelers ... The annual number of times sea turtles spotted laying eggs has remained below 400 since 2021 and sank to a record low of 260 in 2023, only ...