Whether you’re caring for a ball python or bearded dragon, pet reptiles come with unique conditions that you must be aware of ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have remained a mystery. But for the first time ever, researchers at Sweden’s Lund ...

Most reptiles are covered in dry, scaly skin. They can be found living in both water and on the land. There are six species of reptile which live in the UK. They are rare and very shy so spotting ...

Their skin must stay moist to absorb oxygen and therefore lacks scales. Reptiles are turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators and crocodiles. Unlike amphibians, reptiles breathe only through their lungs ...

Examples include frogs, salamanders, and newts. Reptiles are cold-blooded vertebrates with scaly skin that are well-suited to dry environments. They primarily live on land but can also inhabit ...

“This is the first time anyone has conducted an in-depth analysis of fossilised soft tissues from a plesiosaur,” he says. The team was amazed to discover that the reptile had areas of both smooth and ...

The results show that the marine reptiles had a combination of smooth and scaly skin, which allows conclusions to be drawn about their swimming abilities and way of life. Plesiosaurs were a group ...

The combination of scaly and smooth skin likely made the plesiosaur more ... plesiosaurs that runs counter to other ancient marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, as Discover Magazine ...

In reptiles, however, biologists had found distinct skin areas that yielded scales but ... When he compared the naked lizards and their scaly kin, he saw to his shock placode-like bumps dotting ...

With young rattlers set to make their debut, you’re sure to see more of the scaly reptiles, experts say ... each time a rattlesnake sheds its skin or molts, which can happen multiple times ...