Every summer, a majority of Americans hit the road and take a trip to a unique place or simply go on vacation. For those who find themselves driving through Colorado, there is one place that is a must ...

Among the many groups of marine reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs, elasmosaurs are famous for their necks, which can have up to 76 vertebrae and make up more than half the total length of the animal.

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought. The ...

Reptiles often evoke images of cold-blooded stillness, but in the wild, many of these creatures are anything but ordinary. Some can sprint across water, others glide through treetops like dragons, and ...

A new species of day gecko, Cnemaspis godagedarai, has been described in Sri Lanka, bringing the island’s number of endemic geckos in the genus Cnemaspis to 25. The new gecko, named after a national ...

A newly discovered “rough-sided” snake in Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Massif bears testimony to the island’s unique reptile life and also highlights how habitat loss is threatening species survival, a new ...

The prehensile tailed skink is a unique tree dwelling reptile threatened by habitat loss and the pet trade in the Solomon Islands.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Author's note: The video above is on file from a separate story that aired about the Virginia Living Museum in May 2020. Twix the two-headed turtle lives at the Virginia Living ...

Fossils of the elasmosaur Aristonectes were first reported from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia in 1941. Recent discoveries in Chile and on Seymour Island (Antarctica) have provided much new ...