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Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old reptile
Ancient fragments of fossilised skin may help us understand how skin evolved as vertebrate animals moved from the seas onto dry land
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Metal pollution may be skewing the sex ratio of sea turtles
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Of Time and Turtles review: What can we learn from turtles?
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Ancient armoured animal leads to rethink of reptile evolutionary tree
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Fossilised reptile poo contains 200-million-year-old parasites
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Lizard puts less effort into wooing and choosing mates when it’s hot
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Ancient alligator had a stubby snout and may have chomped on snails
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Some sea snakes have re-evolved the ability to see more colours
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Ancient reptiles’ long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation
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Extinct lizard was a bizarrely supersized version of modern skinks
Tiliqua frangens, a giant, armoured skink that lived over 40,000 years ago, is the latest bizarre megafauna species to be discovered in Australia
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Alligators create hotspots for life by digging holes with their snouts
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Snakes have been seen doing somersaults when they鈥檙e scared
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Invasive Burmese python in Florida lays a record 96 eggs in one go
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Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction
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