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Deinosuchus had a wide snout like an alligator’s. But unlike alligators, it thrived in salty waters. It lived between 82 and ...

A 40-foot-long sea snake sounds like a gimmick to sell Hollywood movies, but what would you do if I told you it once existed?

The repeated evolution of reptiles that lived entirely at sea was possible thanks to an ... paleontologists have realized that dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles once thought to be ...

located in the North Sea near the Germany-Denmark border, is part of an island chain “naturally void of snakes,” he wrote. But, since the 1970s, islanders have occasionally reported snake ...

Females likely migrated hundreds of miles to lay eggs on sandy beaches, much like sea turtles do today. Movement onshore, however, was difficult. An adult female Protostega may have weighed a ton ...

Indian scientists have made a major discovery– fossil remains of a giant prehistoric snake species that once ... thought the bones were from a large sea reptile. But after years of careful ...

The turtle-headed sea snake is losing its stripes, and researchers suggest that the change reflects adaptation to fouled oceans. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

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