A paleontological discovery on the Scottish Isle of Skye reveals the fossilized remains of a Jurassic reptile with a ...

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Where did snakes come from? It’s a question that’s puzzled researchers for years, and now they are even more confused. A new ...

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 ...

That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. North Carolina is home to three kinds of legless lizards, also called glass lizards, which look ...

Researchers said this creature, named Breugnathair elgolensis, possessed teeth that were sharply curved and hook-like, as in ...

A menagerie of cold-blooded creatures drew visitors to Albany's Capital Center on Sunday. They came to visit rooms full of lizards, snakes and turtles for the Reptile Expo. Mauro DeLuca, 7, of ...

When they first evolved from lizards more than 100 million years ago, snakes were ecological bit players slithering around the fringes of ecosystems dominated by dinosaurs. But today there are around ...

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