Reptiles

Why did these male turtles have horned shells? Likely to protect their heads during fierce combat, a study finds.

Trash in the turtle's stomach stopped the animal from ingesting more-nutritious foods.

Low temperatures in Florida prompted an unusual warning from the National Weather Service.

Eat more salad, they said. It's good for you, they said.

An ancient lizard was a flying dinosaur's last meal.

Teeth and scales didn't stop an Australian olive python from getting a meal.

Miners digging for gemstones found something entirely different last month; the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster.

The creature survived the crash and wandered dazed in circles around a highway exit in Tallahassee before a trapper turned up.

Above all, remain calm.

An Australian python vomited up a larger Australian python that it had eaten earlier.

Rangers in Australia could hardly believe their eyes when they came across a wild snake with three functioning peepers on its head.

Meet the original "lizard king" — an iguana-size reptile that ruled Antarctica 250 million years ago.

Alligators in an icy pond in North Carolina have taken up "snorkeling" to survive the cold winter.

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science.

Some 511 bloodsucking ticks were removed from this snake.

Lizards can't breathe underwater — or can they?