LiveScience Topics: Reptiles

More Reptiles News and Information

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  Severed Lizard Tail Has a Mind of Its Own

  Lizard tails can perform tricks, even when not attached to a lizard.

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  Dangers in the Deep: 10 Scariest Sea Creatures

  Just when you though it was safe to go in the water, these predators lurk below.

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  'Two-Headed' Snake Fakes Predators

  One sea snake tricks predators with a head-mimicking tail.

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  Mammals Beat Reptiles in Battle of Evolution

  Study finds mammals, birds, fish are evolution's winners; crocodiles, alligators are losers.

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  New Species of Horny Toad Identified in California

  Scientists find that there are more species of horned lizards than previously thought.

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  Lizard Swims Like Snake Through Sand

  Sandfish lizard uses wave-like motion to move through sands of Sahara.

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  40 Years After Moon Landing: Why Aren't People Smarter?

  Despite a long tradition of free, compulsory public education, as a whole we don't seem to be getting much smarter.

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  How Dinosaurs Got So Big

  A new study could explain how dinosaurs got to be so large

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  Snake Tricks Fish to Swim Into Its Mouth

  A small water snake has developed a sneaky trick: It startles fish into swimming right into its mouth.

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  Snake Tricks Prey

  The tentacled snake uses a body fake to trick fish into fleeing toward the snake's head, instead of to safety.

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  7 Shocking Snake Stories

  Surprising discoveries about one of nature's most feared creatures.

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  Battlefield Robot Is a Snake

  Eeek! This 2-foot-long spy robot looks and slithers like a snake.

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  Study Shows How Snakes Slither

  Snakes can slither across flat surfaces without legs, but not entirely without help. That's because snake scales act as friction hooks which catch in rough points on surfaces, a new study shows.

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  Galapagos Reptiles Could Face New Threat

  Mosquitoes in the Galapagos have evolved a taste for reptilian blood, posing a disease threat to wildlife there.

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  Why We'll Always Fear Snakes

  My daughter has a snake, a tiny 8-inch-long, innocuous corn snake, and I hate that thing.

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  Largest Population of Leatherback Sea Turtles Found

  The world's largest nesting population of leatherback sea turtles has been identified in Africa.

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  Air Sacs in Bones Could Be Key to Evolution of Flight

  Paleontologists and biologists have lacked consensus on the evolution of flight. New research says it's in the bones.

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  Lizards Sunbathe for Better Health

  They sun themselves to keep warm and to produce vitamin D.

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  Surviving Salmonella: What You Can Do

  Lettuce, chicken, tomatoes, peanut butter and now pistachios. Pistachios?

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  New Spiders and Frogs Discovered in Papua New Guinea

  Expedition in Papua New Guinea finds new species of spiders, frogs and geckoes.

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  Cannibalistic Rattlesnakes Eat Dead Offspring

  Rattlesnake mothers will eat their dead offspring to regain energy lost in reproduction.