Reptiles

Researchers in Wyoming have named a new species of plesiosaur defined by its long neck and snappy jaws.

Some species of turtles age very slowly or not at all, according to new studies of both captive and wild populations. How do they do it?

The odds of an albino giant tortoise are 1 in 100,000.

U.S. border officers have caught an accused wildlife smuggler allegedly trying to cross from Tijuana to San Diego with nine snakes and 43 horned lizards stuffed into his clothes.

The ancient reptile fossilized with a full belly.

A crocodile in Indonesia has finally been freed from a motorbike tire that had been stuck around its neck for at least 6 years after a local man caught it in a handmade trap.

Federal prosecutors charged a man with illegally harvesting wild turtles to sell commercially, which is illegal in Florida.

Two rare albino alligators have hatched at a Florida safari park.

A newly discovered species of extinct ancient turtle uncovered in Madagascar is proof of convergent evolution of suction feeding in turtles.

Scientists have solved a 150-year-old mystery surrounding the classification of the extinct horned crocodile from Madagascar, giving it its own evolutionary group.

Here's why thousands of sea turtles were paralyzed in the frigid waters along the Texas coastline during the unprecedented winter storm that swept across the country this week.

The Madagascar chameleon Brookesia nana measures half an inch long, and may be critically endangered. He also has huge genitals

Special skin cells give desert geckos from Namibia a neon-green glow.

The ‘swamp king’ was over 16 feet long and much broader than modern-day crocodiles.

More than a century after it was last seen, a spectacularly colorful chameleon is back.

The 313-million-year-old tracks were left by a tetrapod.

One of London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year honorees shows an endangered crocodile carrying 100 babies on his back

New analysis of the ancient crocodylian Deinosuchus confirms that this apex predator had jaws and teeth that were powerful enough to subdue massive dinosaur prey.