Snakes put the brakes on Tesla: Work on new Berlin electric car factory stalls because of sleeping reptiles By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 GMT, 8 December 2020 | Updated: 21:58 GMT, 8 December 2020 Tesla has revealed plans to raise £3.8billion as its work to build a German factory ran into … Read more
Now that’s GOT to hurt! Snake expert films himself being bitten by the reptiles and posts them on Instagram to try and show that they aren’t really dangerous David Orin Humphlett, 21, is filmed jumping into water after a Burmese python Delivery driver from Gainesville, Florida, rates snake bite pain from one to ten He lets … Read more
Winged reptiles like the pterodactyls may have ultimately become ‘deadly masters of the sky’ — but it took then 150 million years to reach this point, a study has found. Researchers from Reading, Bristol and Lincoln found that a series of steady improvements over this time improved the pterosaurs’ flying skills two-fold. Pterosaurs — which first … Read more
Better eye treatments could be developed as a result of a new study that found birds and reptiles have tears with a similar chemical composition to humans. Researchers from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, compared the makeup of bird and reptile tears as well as their structural patterns when they dry out. Before this … Read more
Dragons of the desert: Scientists discover three new species of flying reptiles that lived in the Sahara more than 100 million years ago Professor David Martill, a palaeontologist at University of Portsmouth, led study It revealed a community of pterosaurs that inhabited prehistoric Morocco Identified from chunks of jaws and teeth and had wingspans of … Read more