Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

A tiny gecko trapped in Myanmar amber for almost 99 million years has given scientists a rare look at one of the oldest known ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals that look oddly familiar today, yet belonged to very different lineages.

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed. A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of ...

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles.

A peculiar fossil of a long-necked reptile unearthed in India has pushed back the timeline of the popular colossal dinosaur ...

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Discovered in a German museum but potentially smuggled from Brazil, this lizard fossil ignited fierce debates over scientific ethics, fossil trade, and the global ownership of natural history.

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...