Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

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 ...

In a square-rectangle sort of way, snakes are technically lizards, but for semantics’ sake and because snakes are so distinctive, biologists separate snakes and lizards into different categories.

Melanie Denomme receives support from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada given to Glenn Tattersall. Glenn Tattersall receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

Reptile eggs are an interesting area of study, but what makes the distinction between snakes and lizards regarding their eggs ...

Thousands of species of snakes slither across the globe. Researchers think this is a product of a mysterious singularity event. By Lauren Leffer Published Feb 22, 2024 2:00 PM EST Get the Popular ...