Paleontologists have discovered 50- to 25-million-year-old fossilized footprints of invertebrates and vertebrates, including a false saber-toothed cat...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of trogonophid amphisbaenian (worm lizard) from fossilized specimens found in Tunisia.
Life reconstruction...
An international team of researchers has described a new species of miniaturized gecko in the genus Pseudogonatodes from the Peninsula de Paria in northeastern...
Bubble use evolved in many small invertebrates to enable underwater breathing, but, until recently, there has been no evidence that vertebrate animals...
Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) are the largest living predatory lizards and their serrated, curved and blade-shaped teeth make them valuable analogues...
Paleontologists have found the remains of a previously unknown species of lizard in a piece of mid-Cretaceous amber excavated in northern Myanmar.
Life...
Paleontologists have described a bizarre new species of mosasaurid based on a skull and parts of the skeleton collected from a phosphate mine southeast...
A research team led by University of Calicut scientists has described a new species of agamid lizard from the Indian state of Kerala.
Agasthyagama edge,...
Researchers have described a new species of the genus Calotes from southern China and northern Vietnam.
Photographs of live specimens and their habitats:...
The ecological origin and early evolution of snakes has long been a focus of multiple research fields and remains one of the most enduring and controversial...
A team of researchers from Mizoram University and the Max Planck Institute for Biology has discovered a new species of the gecko genus Gekko living in...
There are more species of lizards and snakes alive today than any other order of land vertebrates, yet their fossil record has been poorly documented compared...
Researchers have described a cryptic new species in the spiny-tailed gecko genus Strophurus from inland areas of southern Western Australia.
Two individuals...
Non-avian theropod dinosaurs such as the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex have long been portrayed with their teeth fully visible, similar to living crocodiles....
A new genus and species of fossil lizard has been described from two fossilized specimens found in eastern Inner Mongolia, China.
Close-up of the holotype...
Cryptovaranoides microlanius is an extinct relative of living lizards such as monitor lizards, gila monsters and slow worms.
An artist’s impression of...
Acoustic communication, broadly distributed among vertebrates, plays a fundamental role in parental care, mate attraction and various other behaviors....
Opisthiamimus gregori is an extinct, small-bodied relative of the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), the only living member of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia.
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