Papers from a symposium held June 5-6, 1978, at Arizona State University, Tempe, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Contents The reproductive biology of reptiles: an ...

The reproductive biology of reptiles encompasses a wider range of strategies than is often assumed in general accounts of the group. Alongside species that deposit shelled eggs in terrestrial nests or ...

Viviparity, the live-bearing mode of reproduction, has evolved independently in several vertebrate lineages, including squamate reptiles and seahorses. In reptiles, evolutionary transitions from ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have documented the first virgin birth in a crocodile. And while the concept may sound bizarre to humans, this type of reproduction is not unheard of across the animal ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...

"First published in the United States in 2001 ... reprinted with corrections in 2002." Authors' introduction -- How this book works -- What is an amphibian? -- What is a reptile? -- Amphibian ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington and research institutes in China and Myanmar studied flowerpot snakes to see how parthenogenesis works in these reptiles. (Alexander Murray) ...