Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what the Earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be even harder to go all the way to a time before dinosaurs ...

Lizards and snakes belong to a family of animals called squamates, and today there are almost 10,000 different species slithering around the world's deserts, backyards, forests and mountains. But who ...

Move over Godzilla. There's a new "mother of all lizards" in town. Known as Megachirella wachtleri, this ancient lizard is the direct ancestor of 10,000 current species of reptiles (including lizards ...

Here’s a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It’s home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the "Great Dying" that occurred about 250 million years ago devastated nearly all class of life on Earth. Up to 96 percent of species died out during the ...

Demographically speaking, the U.S. will look quite different going forward. Most old people will be White; most young people will be people of color. Among men and women, there isn’t much of an ...

Unraveling the mysteries of prehistoric life on Earth can be a daunting task. Researchers often derive clues from unearthed fossils, allowing them to establish a timeline and comprehend how modern ...

(THE CONVERSATION) We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a ...

Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report in ...

Scientists just discovered an ancient fossil known as the “mother of all lizards,” or: the oldest ancestor of squamates, a category of reptiles that include snakes, lizards and creepy legless worms ...

Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report.