The basilisk lizard looks ordinary—until it's forced to run. When danger appears, it explodes into motion, sprinting across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. The News & Observer spoke with ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like ...

I had come here on an excursion with Bangkok Herping, a new walking-tour outfit that swaps the Thai capital city’s predictable after-dark activities for an expert-guided deep dive into a side of the ...

A lizard on a wall is so common that most of us don't even notice it anymore. It appears for a few seconds, freezes in place, ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes. Sometimes, supposedly reasonable assumptions set researchers on the wrong ...

That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there's a chance it's not. The News & Observer spoke with local wildlife experts to learn about these reptiles — where they ...

My guide, Thai American snake expert Christopher Shannon, caught it in the beam of his flashlight, the snake’s chartreuse ...