Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what the earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be even harder to go all the way to a time before dinosaurs ...

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what the Earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be even harder to go all the way to a time before dinosaurs ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos — delicious Latin American pastries — fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. In this ...

Scientists just discovered an ancient fossil known as the “mother of all lizards,” or: the oldest ancestor of squamates, a category of reptiles that include snakes, lizards and creepy legless worms ...

Here’s a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It’s home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, ...

Around 252 million years ago, an event dubbed the Permo-Triassic extinction event or "The Great Dying" rewrote the story of life on Earth. Researchers aren’t sure exactly what led to this global ...

Nearly one fifth of all reptiles — turtles, snakes, lizards and crocodiles — are on a slippery slope toward extinction due to loss of habitat, overharvesting and other factors, a new report says. The ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Scientists at Tulane University made a discovery! Lead-resistant lizards are roaming around New Orleans! Their studies show that the lizards here have an unprecedented amount of ...

Sometimes it's hard to imagine what the Earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be even harder to go all the way to a time before dinosaurs ...