Tag: reptiles

  • Nation & World

    Why were reptiles such evolution success story?

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

    4 minutes
    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.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    5 minutes
    A 231-million-year-old reptile skull.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
    Fossil-vertebrae
  • Nation & World

    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.

    6 minutes