Earth's scaly creatures have evolved a dizzying assortment of forms to master their environments, with successful reptile groups like lizards, snakes, crocodiles and turtles all boasting many different unique species — not to mention amazing extinct reptiles like the flying pterosaurs or marine Mosasaurus. Live Science lets you discover the great diversity of Reptilia, so whether our expert writers and editors are covering the discovery of the world's smallest reptile — it fits on your fingertip — or why extinction threatens one in five reptile species, you'll always have reptile news, features and articles to read.
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Crocodiles are overheating due to climate change — and it's changing their behavior
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Labord's chameleon: The color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 months
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Orange dwarf cave crocodiles: The crocs that crawled into a cave, ate bats, and started mutating into a new species
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Why do iguanas fall from trees in Florida?
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Henry the giant crocodile, who has sired 10,000 babies, celebrates 124th birthday
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Cantor's giant softshell turtle: The frog-faced predator that spends 95% of its time completely motionless
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Gharial: The prehistoric crocodilian that buzzes and blows bubbles to find a mate
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Crocodiles are overheating due to climate change — and it's changing their behavior
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Orange dwarf cave crocodiles: The crocs that crawled into a cave, ate bats, and started mutating into a new species
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Henry the giant crocodile, who has sired 10,000 babies, celebrates 124th birthday
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Gharial: The prehistoric crocodilian that buzzes and blows bubbles to find a mate
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Crocodile quiz: Test your knowledge on the prehistoric predators
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Scientists to read Cassius the giant crocodile's bones to find out exactly how old he was when he died
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Cassius, the world's biggest captive crocodile, may have been over 120 years old when he died
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Crocodile 'fingerprints' may reveal Australia's deadly, hidden predators
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'If you can bench press a car, you are good to go': Inside the incredible bite-force of crocodiles
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Labord's chameleon: The color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 months
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Short-horned lizard: The inflatable 'horny toad' that squirts toxic blood from its eyes
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'Scuba-diving' lizards breathe underwater by wearing air bubbles on their noses — just like in a cartoon
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Thorny devil: The spike-covered lizard that sucks water from sand through its skin
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Watch chameleon erupt in color 'as if uttering her last words' in her final moments before death
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Surprise discovery of snake-like lizard feared extinct leaves scientists amazed
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Earless monitor lizards: The 'Holy Grail' of reptiles that looks like a mini dragon
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Newly discovered Cretaceous sea monster named after world-ending Norse serpent
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This psychedelic-eyed gecko isn't what we thought it was
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King cobra mystery that's puzzled scientists for 188 years finally solved
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'Truly primal': Watch Burmese python swallow deer whole in Florida Everglades by stretching its mouth to the absolute limit
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4-foot snake vomits up 2 smaller snakes — and 1 was still alive
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Giant snake eaten alive by another giant snake in 1st-of-its-kind encounter
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Cobras and their relatives evolved in Asia
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Deadly snake delivers enough venom to kill 400 humans in record-breaking 'milking'
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Cottonmouth snakes: Facts about water moccasins
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'Ronaldo had been looking slightly fatter than usual': Snake thought to be male has 14 babies in rare 'virgin birth'
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ReferenceCopperhead snakes: Facts, bites & babies
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Cantor's giant softshell turtle: The frog-faced predator that spends 95% of its time completely motionless
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Leatherback turtle dives deeper than a Navy sub, smashing world record in the process
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Mary River turtle: The green-haired oddball that can breathe through its butt for 72 hours
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Largest freshwater turtle species doomed to extinction after last female washes up dead
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Most of Florida's newly-hatched sea turtles are female. Why?
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Can turtles really breathe through their butts?
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Ancient Transylvanian turtle survived the extinction of the dinosaurs
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190-year-old Jonathan is the oldest tortoise ever
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Outside of Earth's 'shell,' SpaceX's Crew-3 reveal turtle as zero-g indicator
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