Lizards' amazing ability to orient themselves in the field has been long suspected to have something to do with a formation experts have termed their “third eye,” a patch of light-sensitive cells that they have on the side of their heads. According to a series of new experiments, the animals orient t... |
1 September 2009
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According to a new study conducted by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), mammals can now be declared the winners of the evolutionary race, outclassing reptiles in the fight for survival. Fish and birds also moved ahead of reptiles, each exhibiting large species diversity, which means that ... |
1 August 2009
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It's common knowledge that mammals, unlike for example reptiles, have warm blood and generate heat inside their bodies at all times. For many years, researchers in the field of evolution have been trying to decipher the mystery of this difference, and especially how warm-blooded creatures came to be in the first... |
5 February 2009
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A researcher at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine argues in a recent study, published in the journal Zitteliana, that pterosaurs, the giant 500 pound (roughly 250 kilograms)-heavy flying reptiles that lived from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period, between 220 and 65.5 million ye... |
7 January 2009
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When it comes to reptiles, temperature, rather than chance, decides the sex of their young ones. In most species of reptiles, an increase in nesting temperature usually gives rise to more females than males, although for a unique species of reptiles known as tuatara the situation is exactly the opposite. This basical... |
2 July 2008
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