A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

Coiled in self-defence, this armoured creature – the armadillo girdled lizard – turns its body into a formidable fortress to ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, came into force 50 years ago and remains one of the most ...

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

New research shows that unique reptiles in Australia, like the Australian Mountain Dragon, are struggling to find suitable ...

They run on water, flash electric blue, and look like dinosaurs—but these real-life “dragons” are vanishing fast. A shocking ...

An exciting new species of lizard, Diploderma bifluviale, has been discovered in the upper Dadu River valley of Sichuan, ...

Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Wildlife smuggling cases threaten ecosystems and communities. As shown in similar cases, invasive species introduced through ...

Reptiles can be great first pets when you pick the right species. The easiest ones don’t need huge tanks or complicated ...