Recently, scientists discovered a reptile fossil that provides the missing link between the transformation in the modes of ...

An international team has published research in Nature today that identified the oldest known mummified remains of an ...

In particular, amphibians require a watery environment as part of their life cycles. Reptile shoulders can move in a way that ...

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

Every breath you take is an ancient inheritance. The rise and fall of your chest, the intercostal muscles pulling your ribs ...

Every breath you take is an ancient inheritance. The rise and fall of your chest, the intercostal muscles pulling your ribs outward, the rush of air ...

Learn more about a mummy found in an Oklahoma cave that reveals clues about how early amniotes breathed.

Scientists in England have discovered a strange 215-million-year-old “greyhound crocodile” named Galahadosuchus jonesi.

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe though probably not for food. The careful cleaning of carapace elements at Neumark-Nord indicates that shells were reused ...

As the NH State Wildlife Action Plan enters its second decade, the need to protect local species from climate change, pollution and habitat destruction continues. These eight species and others facing ...

A cave preserved two animals’ rib cages, cartilage and even traces of protein, revealing a flexible breathing apparatus like ...

The reptiles and mammals that descend from them, however, use muscles associated with their ribs and shoulders to contract ...