A collection of KS1 Science videos showing some interesting facts about birds, reptiles and mammals. These clips can be used in the classroom to explore how these animals live, hunt and adapt in ...

Their metabolism depends on the temperature of their environment. Unlike birds and mammals, reptiles do not maintain a constant internal body temperature. Without fur or feathers for insulation ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

The Houston Exotic Reptile and Pet Show (HERPS) is set to return next weekend at the Richard M. Borchard Fairgrounds.

Only a handful of mammals can regrow teeth multiple times, compared to the 50,000 species of reptiles and fish. Take geckos, for example, who will replace all 100 teeth, or so, every 3 to 4 months.

Vertebrates, for example, are divided into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Mammals are warm-blooded animals with hair or fur and can produce milk to feed their young. They have ...

While we can easily distinguish a creature like a jaguar from a reptile or a bird in the modern world, however, mammals as we know them are the result of hundreds of millions of years of ...

Using cutting-edge stem cell technology, a team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently created a ...

A Survey of the Fauna of Iraq: Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, etc. Made by Members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force “D,” 1915–1919. Pp. xx + 404 + 20 plates. (Bombay: Bombay Natural History ...

Amphibians and reptiles play important roles in the ecosystems where they live. Some serve as predators that keep their prey's numbers in check, like snakes that eat mice and other rodents. Other ...

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.