The earliest ancestors of the crocodile evolved around 235 million years ago. These prehistoric predators have an impressive ...

NARRATOR: Bird flight developed as an adaptation to the environment ... And we know that this wetland was freshwater because it was completely isolated from the sea. NARRATOR: Paleontologist ...

“The animal bones we have recovered indicate that they were successfully exploiting the surrounding fauna, hunting red deer, horses, and bison, but also eating freshwater turtles and ...

Lately, I’ve been thinking about fish. Fish have been around a lot longer than humans, yet we tend to think of them more often as a food ...

From the weird to the wonderful, here's our roundup of animals you've never heard of before (and certainly won't forget in a ...

Many ocean species are already moving out of their historical ranges or declining in population as waters warm above animals’ threshold for adaptation ... is responsible for many more that live in ...

Adaptations for both land and water ... Lurk in brackish and freshwater environments, often observed far out at sea. 8. Leatherback Sea Turtles – Endangered, with populations decreasing. – Largest ...

Green sea turtle under water. Image by jesse schoff via Unsplash About ... giving birth to fully-formed young at sea without laying eggs. This adaptation enabled the yellow-bellied sea snake to extend ...

It might sound hyperbolic to say that finding even one female turtle can revive an entire species. However, nothing could be ...

The Bangladesh Forest Department recently confiscated a large shipment of freshwater turtles from smugglers in the capital city. Experts say the consumer base for freshwater turtles is expanding ...

“Now in Jamaica, we have one native freshwater turtle [the Jamaican slider turtle]. There was an incident in Clarendon where the police arrested a gentleman for having these turtles at his yar ...