Biologists from the University of Michigan have uncovered the rapid evolutionary change in snakes from their legless lizard ancestors. According to their study in Science, snakes developed unique ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...

A tiny fossil found on Skye has provided new information on the early evolution of lizards during the time of dinosaurs, say scientists. The skeleton of Bellairsia gracilis is just 6cm (2in) long and ...

A 205-million-year-old fossil discovered near Bristol has been confirmed as the oldest known modern lizard, pushing back the Squamata timeline by 35 million years. Originally unearthed in 1953, the ...

A groundbreaking University of Bristol study has shed light on how lizards and snakes -the most diverse group of land vertebrates with nearly 12,000 species - have evolved remarkably varied jaw shapes ...

(THE CONVERSATION) We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James T. Stroud, Georgia Institute of Technology and Jonathan Losos, Washington ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil found on a beach in Devon, England, is changing what we know about lizard evolution. A new study, published in Nature, details how this ancient reptile is giving ...