Reptile eggs are an interesting area of study, but what makes the distinction between snakes and lizards regarding their eggs ...

It is easy to assume that an egg found outdoors belongs to a bird. Most people do. Eggs feel familiar, almost ordinary, until ...

Discovering reptile eggs during a nature walk or in your garden can be a fascinating experience. Although lizard eggs and snake eggs often appear similar, key differences in size, shape, texture, and ...

Reptiles are not known to be the most social of creatures. But when it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. New ...

Reptiles exhibit remarkable reproductive diversity, with many species giving birth to live young rather than laying eggs.

Those living in Australia tend to have a more relaxed approach towards snakes, spiders, and creepy crawlies. But finding 43 unidentified reptile eggs in a sandpit at a school might even be too much ...

This fossilized egg was laid by Mussaurus, a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur that grew to 20 feet in length and lived between 227 and 208.5 million years ago in what is now Argentina. The world's ...

A 250 million-year-old dinocephalosaurus fossil showed an embryo inside a mother An embryo preserved in a 250 million-year-old fossil is evidence that a type of animal previously thought to only lay ...

The literature on shovelsnouted snakes of the genus Prosymna suggests that they feed on insects, worms, and small lizards, with one record of a small bird's egg and another of collapsed reptile eggs.

A cache of hundreds of eggs discovered in China sheds new light on the development and nesting behavior of prehistoric, winged reptiles called pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were fearsome-looking creatures ...

The largest reptile egg in the world has been found on Antarctica. The gigantic egg, which measures more than 11 inches long and 7 inches wide, was apparently laid by a sea monster about 68 million ...