By Herp News For nearly 150 million years, they were apex predators of the ocean — streamlined sleek-snouted carnivores called ichthyosaurs. To the casual observer, ichthyosaurs would have looked a bit like long-nosed tuna. According to theory, their forebears were land-loving reptiles which adapted to the sea after the world was struck by a mass […]

By Herp News A 248-million-year-old fossil of an ancient reptile found in China is the oldest known member of a well-known group of marine reptiles, and may have lived both on land and in the sea. The specimen is a primitive type of ichthyopterygian, a group related to ichthyosaurs, which are large marine reptiles that […]

By Herp News A 248-million-year-old fossil of an ancient reptile found in China is the oldest known member of a well-known group of marine reptiles, and may have lived both on land and in the sea. The specimen is a primitive type of ichthyopterygian, a group related to ichthyosaurs, which are large marine reptiles that […]

By Herp News A prehistoric fossil has been found at the Yangtze River near Shanghai. An expert says it could be the first amphibious ichthyosaur (illustrated) reptiles that could live both in and out of the water. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News When it comes to genitalia, nature enjoys variety. Snakes and lizards have two. Birds and people have one. And while the former group’s paired structures are located somewhat at the level of the limbs, ours, and the birds’, appear a bit further down. In fact, snake and lizard genitalia are derived from […]

By Herp News Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, a dinosaur-era sea reptile, had a body built to live in two worlds, a new study says. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ichthyosaurs were a hugely successful group of marine reptiles that flourished in the world's oceans for more than 150 million years, with many looking much like today's dolphins and some getting even bigger than a sperm whale. But the extensive ichthyosaur fossil record had not included […]

By Herp News An ancient marine reptile with seal-like flippers may have been adapted to life on the land as well as in the sea, scientists believe. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — These are fertile – and historic – times at the Audubon Zoo Reptile Encounter. In recent weeks, Zoo staff has welcomed the first-ever births of critically endangered false gharials at Audubon. Gharials, a freshwater crocodilian native to Southeast Asia with a very thin and elongated snout, have […]

Unlike a mythical dragon, bearded dragons and fire don’t go together. From The Daily Mail: Crews were called to a terraced house in Bolton, Greater Manchester, just before 11am this morning when a fire began behind the fridge-freezer. When firefighters arrived they found a woman outside with her two husky dogs, who told them her […]

Just when you thought the Discovery Channel couldn’t sink any lower. Just when you thought reality TV couldn’t get any stupider. Along comes “Eaten Alive,” wherein the Discovery Channel will dress a man in a “snake-proof suit” and lett an anaconda eat him alive. It’s not just stupid, it’s cruel to the snake. It’s not […]