These reptiles routinely experience ecdysis, the shedding of a layer of skin. They do this to accommodate their growth, repair or replace old or damaged skin, and to get rid of parasites. Some snakes ...

The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, lizards and legless worm-looking creatures known as amphisbaenians, is the largest order of living land vertebrates on the planet.

Although the Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, made up of over 10,000 different species, their evolutionary origins are not yet well understood.

The tuatara, a reptile native to New Zealand, looks like a lizard but belongs to a completely different evolutionary branch. A study published in Nature in 2020 revealed that tuataras have one of ...

Reptiles Turtles (Order Testudines) Snapping Turtles (Family Chelydridae) Common snapping turtle ~ Chelydra serpentine Box and Pond Turtles (Family Emydidae) Painted turtle ~ Chrysemys picta Spotted ...

Snakes and lizards are reptiles that belong to the order Squamata. They share several traits but differ in one obvious respect: Snakes do not have limbs. The two suborders diverged more than 100 ...

Lizards are a diverse group of reptiles made up of thousands of species around the world, including giant Komodo dragons and chameleons the size of your fingertip.