New scans of a 345-million-year-old fossil reveal that Westlothiana, once considered an early reptile, belonged to a far more ...

While most reptiles are wild, many are kept as pets because of their reputation for being mysterious and exotic. Having an unconventional pet comes with its own concerns, though, that you'll need to ...

“Charismatic megafauna” describes many people’s favorite animals: blue whales, giant pandas, elephants, penguins, and other large beasts of the natural world. Many of these animals are hunted to ...

An extinct reptile’s oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on Earth, according to a new study. In fact, paleontologists at Yale, Sam ...

“Jurassic Park made everyone want to have their own dinosaur in their house,” says a reptile enthusiast in the trailer for HBO’s ‘Monsters of God’ Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, ...

Meet Westlothiana lizziae, also known as “Lizzie,” a tiny Scottish fossil that spent decades holding the crown as one of the oldest known reptiles. At roughly 345 million years old, Lizzie seemed to ...

A young savannah monitor begins this reptile tour with a planned mukbang featuring chicken, fish, and octopus. Eating is not ...