New Zealand's land animals are not well protected when land is developed for new uses. Recent and proposed policy changes ...

A Devon fossil offers rare insight into early lizard evolution, revealing unexpected skull and tooth traits, say University ...

The new species looked like a lizard with a short body and four limbs but had snake-like jaws and curved teeth like pythons, showing a mix of traits from both lizards and snakes.

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

Scientists have discovered a strange Jurassic lizard on Scotland’s Isle of Skye that’s blurring the boundaries between snakes ...

Scientists discovered a 167-million-year-old lizard fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, that has snake-like jaws and teeth but a ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up as mostly pieces of ...

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

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