An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

A 280-million-year-old fossil from the Italian Alps is pretty much just black paint in the lizard-shaped grooves of a rock. So say researchers who examined the specimen and laid to rest questions that ...

The oldest known lizard has reclaimed its crown clade. A contentious fossil has been re-analyzed by paleobiologists and declared the earliest known member of the lizard-snake group. The critter at the ...

Argentine black and white tegus (Salvator merianae) were brought to the United States in the 1990s by exotic pet traders. They've since proliferated in the wild and been deemed an invasive species.

Discovered in a German museum but potentially smuggled from Brazil, this lizard fossil ignited fierce debates over scientific ethics, fossil trade, and the global ownership of natural history.

The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, following analysis of a ...

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed. The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the fossil is considered to be “extraordinary.” In May, rising senior and ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new prehistoric species in Morocco — a bizarre-looking marine lizard considerably larger than a great white shark, which, they say, dominated the seas while ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...