Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. The News & Observer spoke with ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, ...

A University of Queensland-led study has shed light on how some lizards have evolved to resist deadly neurotoxins from Australia's most venomous snakes. The research, led by UQ's Professor Bryan Fry, ...

The insatiable horseshoe whip snake has become an existential threat to the Ibiza wall lizard Irrefutable proof of what Spanish researchers and wildlife experts had long suspected, and long feared, ...

I had come here on an excursion with Bangkok Herping, a new walking-tour outfit that swaps the Thai capital city’s ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

Q. We found a snake (photo attached) in Charleston, South Carolina, but have been unable to identify it from a field guide or the Web. Is it an exotic species? A. I get this query every year and send ...