Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

Artistic reconstruction of Bolg amondol, depicted raiding an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest amidst the lush Kaiparowits Formation habitat. For 20 years, the remains of a giant lizard that lived ...

A 205-million-year-old fossil, hidden in a museum, has been identified as the oldest modern lizard, triggering a significant chapter in the history of evolution. The small, fossilized lizard, that has ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost. New research indicates a distinct pattern. According to a study conducted ...

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed. The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is ...

It turns out Jim Morrison wasn’t the first Lizard King. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor who studied a reptile that roamed the tropical forests of Southeast Asia 40 million years ago has ...