“Although primarily grass feeders, [takahē] will often supplement their diet with insects, lizards, and have even been spotted taking ducklings. Protein is obviously an important part of their diet,” ...

C ritically endangered species often exist in small fragmented populations. These can be separated by oceans or mountain ...

Many marine creatures like ammonoids and conodonts went extinct, as well as land animals like phytosaurs, aetosaurs, giant amphibians called metoposaurs, and lots of crocodile-like reptiles. However, ...

The reptile is the longest snake species native to the U.S. While some may balk at adding more snakes to the neighborhood, there is a good reason behind the release, which is an annual event.

By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

These extinct crayfish likely scoured lakebeds for decaying plant material, keeping water quality in check. Their size suggests they may have been valuable prey for fish and reptiles, fueling a cycle ...

Photograph: Courtesy of Gecko Gallery The pint-sized reptile museum is the passion ... Visitors can expect to see show-stealers like the nearly extinct Madagascar leaf-tailed gecko, a giant ...

Both Spinney’s lively book for non-specialists ... focus on the origins of this vast language family. By contrast, extinct and endangered languages are the preoccupation of Rare Tongues ...

Ochi’s dedication to capturing the spirit of its influences, however, is also the movie’s greatest strength. The film comes alive anytime that Yuri is interacting with her little ochi friend ...

In an unprecedented success for conservation efforts, a tiny population of Guam kingfishers given a new home has laid its first eggs—after 40 years of the species being extinct in the wild.

Named Othniophyton elongatum, the fossil shows no connection to any known plant families, modern or extinct ... a new species of Triassic reptile from Cromhall Quarry in South Gloucestershire.

But now, a new study suggests the reptile sits far away from alligators on their family tree. The research team analyzed DNA and fossils from 128 living and extinct crocodilians—the group that ...