News articles tagged with 'reptile'
The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex
— 28 Mar 2011 19:07 | BiologyA new study is providing fascinating insight into how projections conveying sensory information in the brain are guided to their appropriate targets in different species. The research,…
Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
— 2 Feb 2011 16:13 | BiologyBiologists from the UCLA Division of Life Sciences have reported the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link between habitat and body size in turtles and tortoises…
Dino-era sex riddle solved by new fossil find
— 21 Jan 2011 18:50 | Geology and palaeontologyThe discovery of an ancient fossil, nicknamed 'Mrs T,' has allowed scientists for the first time to sex pterodactyls - flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs between 220-65…
Humidity makes gecko feet stickier
— 15 Oct 2010 12:38 | BiologyHuman adhesives are famed for their fallibility. Gooey glues soon lose their grip, are easily contaminated and leave residues behind. But not gecko feet. Geckos can cling on repeatedly…
Ancient reptiles 'make tracks'
— 30 Jul 2010 10:07 | Geology and palaeontologyThe 318-million-year-old reptile footprints were found in sea-cliffs on the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. They show that reptiles were the first vertebrates (animals with a backbone)…
Crocodiles ride ocean currents for ocean travel
— 7 Jun 2010 16:08 | BiologyThe mystery of how the world's largest living reptile - the estuarine crocodile - has come to occupy so many South Pacific islands separated by huge stretches of ocean despite being…
New skeletons from the age of dinosaurs answer century-old questions
— 21 May 2010 12:57 | Geology and palaeontologyMore than 100 years ago palaeontologist E. D. Cope of 'Dinosaur Wars' fame found a few fragmentary bones of a reptile in the deserts of New Mexico. He named the reptile Typothorax.…
Demoting a dinosaur
— 18 May 2010 20:04 | Geology and palaeontologyAzendohsaurus just shed its dinosaur affiliation. A careful new analysis of A. madagaskarensis - this time based on the entire skull rather than on just teeth and jaws - aligns this…
New showcase in the Amphibians and Reptiles Hall at the NMNHS
— 1 May 2010 12:12 | BiologyA new showcase in the Amphibians and Reptiles Hall at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia presents the most interesting poisonous snakes, as well as the most toxic frogs in…
Why Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian ones
— 21 Nov 2009 12:32 | BiologyA series of studies carried out at the University of Haifa have found that rodent, reptile and ant lion species behave differently on either side of the Israel-Jordan border. 'The border…