For 320 million years, a hidden story has been written in the skin of reptiles. Scientists have now decoded it, and what they ...

The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where they fit in the tree of life remains a highly debated topic. The ...

Lizard bone armor evolved at least 13 separate times over 320 million years, and monitor lizards even re-grew it after losing ...

Lizards are generally considered as harmless reptiles that creep along the walls, rest on rocks, or hide under plant leaves.

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action. James Stroud, an assistant professor in the ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused a mass extinction that wiped out 75% of Earth’s animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. But “night” lizards survived. A new Yale study has ...

Historical introduction : on widely foraging for Kalahari lizards / Raymond B. Huey and Eric R. Pianka -- Movement patterns in lizards : measurement, modality, and behavioral correlates / Gad Perry -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After gathering data on the captured anole, the team releases it back to the wild. Neil Losin/Day's Edge Prods. Every morning in ...