Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their limbless cousins. A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved ...

A rare discovery in a Cuban cave has rewritten what we thought we knew about reptile intelligence: the first snake hunters we ...

Hundreds of medical students, staff and their families attended a “Snakes Alive” presentation at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) March 11. Bruce Shwedick, director of ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...

What began as a normal check quickly turned into a shocking moment when something unexpected was discovered beneath the snake ...

Video footage of the moment snakes launch themselves at their prey reveals that the reptiles are either "strikers" or "lungers" — and the difference between the two is rooted in their teeth, new ...

Thanks to a line of dialogue from Indiana Jones in Steven Spielberg’s 1981 blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford has long been linked to snakes. The association has ...

In 2015, a fossil unearthed in a German museum collection set the world abuzz. The specimen, Tetrapodophis amplectus, Latin for "four-footed snake," was hailed as the first documented four-limbed ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...