Tag: reptiles

  • Science & Tech

    Why were reptiles such evolution success story?

    Fast climatic shifts due to global warming coincided with high rates of morphological change in most reptiles.

    Artistic rendering of of carnivorous reptile that was a close relative of crocodiles and dinosaurs chasing a gliding reptile in a hot and dry river valley 240 million years ago.
  • Science & Tech

    Knowing a big deal when you see it

    The fossil was found to belong to a previously unknown species of a lizard-like reptile, representing the earliest evolving member of a lineage that today includes all lizards, snakes, and their closest relatives.

    A 231-million-year-old reptile skull.
  • Science & Tech

    Breaking down backbones

    Harvard scientists are using the fossil record and a close examination of the vertebrae of thousands of modern animals to understand how and when specialized regions in the spines of mammals developed.

    Fossil-vertebrae
  • Health

    Climbing out of hiding

    For decades, scientists have been stymied in their attempts to better understand proboscis anole, a small lizard whose defining feature is a horn on its nose, because it appeared to be all but extinct — until now.