While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

The discovery of preserved skin on a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur is revolutionizing our understanding of these extinct ...

Cornified scales of reptiles increased their capacity to live in terrestrial environments. The stratum corneum is very thin, with little keratin. Skin is used for gas exchange. Thick keratin layer ...

Most reptiles are covered in dry, scaly skin. They can be found living in both water and on the land. There are six species of reptile which live in the UK. They are rare and very shy so spotting ...

Reptiles are air-breathing vertebrates covered in special skin made up of scales, bony plates, or a combination of both. They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and tor- toises.

Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians, plus new niches. The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

There are subtler differences that set them apart. From scaly skin to moist habitats, amphibians and reptiles have adapted to their environments in distinct ways. Let's hop into the world of ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...