Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species ...

Scientists discovered a 167-million-year-old lizard fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, that has snake-like jaws and teeth but a ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes.

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of ...

The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like traits. So was it an early ...

The University of Texas at Arlington team will use her tissue to study her genome and, hopefully, prove once and for all that the Dixon’s whiptail is its own species. The team members believe the ...

Scientists in Vietnam found a “long”-legged creature with a row of “dagger-like” spines on its back and discovered a new species, a study said Photo from Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Ziegler, Do and Ngo (2025) ...