More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

10:11, Mon, Oct 23, 2017 Updated: 10:20, Mon, Oct 23, 2017 1. Reptiles come in four varieties: turtles and tortoises; crocodilia (including alligators); lizards and snakes; New Zealand tuatara. 2.

Not so dim after all: alligators and crocodiles have been caught using sticks as bait to ambush birds – a rare display of ...

Instead of pulling its head into its shell when it senses danger, the New Guinea Snakeneck Turtle, a type of sideneck turtle, will flop its head to the side. By doing so, it exposes its neck to danger ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian ('fish-lizard') Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (top left). The marine ...