The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

Under no light but the stars, a green sea turtle hauls herself out of the surf and onto the familiar sand of Alagadi Beach on ...

A highly anticipated clutch of hognose snakes has finally hatched, revealing a wave of tiny newborns. Footage shows the exact ...

Which animal makes a better parent, a bird that never feeds her young or a turtle that lays her eggs and never looks back?

Scientists have revealed thepreserved embryos of a 200-million-year-old dinosaur species. Using a state-of-the-art particle ...

The answer is no parent is better than another. Any species still around has been on the right track regarding parental care. In seeking to unravel mysteries of the natural world, ecologists try to ...

The cultural stories attached to the turtle dove are so complicated, so varied, that you could well imagine them framing one ...

As winter tightens its grip across southern Manitoba, the ponds, forests and wetlands that were alive with movement just months ago appear to fall silent. The chorus of frogs fades, turtles disappear ...

The night snake, whose scientific classification is Hypsiglena torquata, is a small nocturnal snake found in a broad but ...

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