S ome snakes are well-known for injecting prey with venom from their fangs. What’s less well known is that they produce toxic ...

Salivary stones, also called sialolithiasis, are hardened mineral deposits that form in the salivary glands. The condition is more likely to affect people age 30 to 60 and men are more likely to get ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Magdeburg and Paris has for the first time investigated resting traces with the body impressions of early mammalian ...

Are snakes reptiles? Despite their different body structure, snakes share all of the necessary physiological traits that make ...

Frogs are not reptiles, although the mistake is understandable due to the commonalities between reptiles and amphibians.

Mesosaurs are among the most amazing extinct animals; they are the oldest known reptiles that developed aquatic adaptations, although how terrestrial their ancestors had become remains to be ...

III Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Correspondence to Correspondence to: Mahmood Reza Nikbakhtzadeh ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been pushed back by an astonishing 40 million years. Fossilized tracks unearthed in Australia provide compelling evidence that reptile-like animals existed far ...

The story of the origin of tetrapods began with fishes leaving the water, and ended with the descendants of these first colonists on land diversifying into the ancestors of the modern amphibians and ...

Paris (AFP) – After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its small claws into the still-wet ground. Its tracks, which have been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the ...