En esta playa del Caribe costarricense, los saqueadores de huevos de tortuga van armados conduciendo vehículos nuevos todoterreno mientras que los ambientalistas aceleraban una camioneta vieja esquivando obstáculos puestos por sus rivales para hacerlos llegar demasiado tarde a los nidos de tortugas baulas. Leer más.

aying the aging reptile is “really embarrassing himself,” leading herpetologists expressed embarrassment Monday on behalf of Old Bill, a local giant tortoise who reportedly makes tremendous efforts to appear several decades younger than his actual 120 years. Leer más.

North America hosted a diverse assemblage of horned dinosaurs from the late Campanian until the end of the Cretaceous, but comparatively little is known about earlier horned dinosaurs. Leer más.

A new albanerpetontid, Wesserpeton evansae gen. et sp. nov., from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England, is described. Leer más.

The origin of the turtle shell has perplexed biologists for more than two centuries. It was not until Odontochelys semitestacea was discovered, however, that the fossil and developmental data could be synthesized into a model of shell assembly that makes predictions for the as-yet unestablished history of the turtle stem group. Leer más.