If it was not part of the snake lineage, Breugnathair may have been an evolutionary dead end, with snake-like predatory ...

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

150 million years ago, a prehistoric reptile unlike modern lizards slinked around what is now Wyoming. An ancient rhynchocephalian, the insect-eating animal’s discovery could shed light on the ...

Photograph (A) and interpretative illustration (B) in left lateral view ... be able to see what paleontologists are calling ...

Reptiles of the world: tortoises and turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes of the eastern and western hemispheres, by Raymond L. Ditmars ... with a frontispiece, and nearly 200 illustrations, from ...

Under the scorching summer sun, the radiating heat is a lure for snakes to come slithering out into the open for a spot of sunbaking. While many people fear the reptiles, a woman from Newcastle ...

A stone slab barely half a meter wide is shaking the foundations of evolutionary science. Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an ...

A 94-million-year-old fossil found in Utah is offering new insight to the evolution of an ancient sea-dwelling reptile. Illustration from Utah’s Bureau of Land Management A 94-million-year-old fossil ...