Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these ...

Lizards possess remarkable abilities. Some desert species survive with minimal water. Many lizards drop their tails to escape ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

For the first time in its history, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Frozen Zoo has expanded its mission to include not ...

A newly discovered armored lizard that lived alongside dinosaurs has been named after a villain from Tolkien’s "The Hobbit." Bolg amondol was a "goblin prince" among dinosaurs around 78 million ...