The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

In 1954, during bird surveys in Huambo Province, researchers captured a dark chanting goshawk at the base of Mount Moco and ...

Imagine wandering through the blazing, sun-baked stretches of the American Southwest, where life seems impossible, yet the ...

Imagine facing a predator and, instead of running, you suddenly squirt blood from your eyes as a defense. It sounds like a ...

Animals protect themselves from being eaten by other animals in countless ways. Some are commonplace. Others are ...

In the animal kingdom, defense mechanisms come in all shapes and forms. Some creatures camouflage, others deploy venomous stings, while a select few have evolved truly bizarre tactics. Perhaps none is ...

True to their name, which means fish lizard in Greek ... "Many of them were monstrous predators that hunted other marine reptiles and any other prey smaller than themselves, almost as if they ...

True to their name, which means fish lizard in Greek, according to National Geographic ... "Many of them were monstrous predators that hunted other marine reptiles and any other prey smaller than ...

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Whether the cannon gets cemented as a state symbol alongside the horned lizard or the monarch butterfly remains to be seen. There have been attempts in the past, including in 2017 when Sen.

The horned toad (which is actually a lizard) definitely makes the cut for odd and unusual defenses. Having bony spines on the head and body would be enough to deter some predators, especially a ...