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Meet the Newly Identified Predator from Triassic Times

A newly identified, armor-plated reptile from southern Brazil is rewriting what we know about life just before the age of ...
Yale Environment 360

Blast radius survivors: The lizards that endured the cataclysmic asteroid strike

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused a mass extinction that wiped out 75% of Earth’s animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. But “night” lizards survived. A new Yale study has ...
Discover Wildlife

It might look like a dinosaur but this remarkable new discovery is actually a fearsome, deadly prehistoric crocodile that's even older than dinosaurs

A team of palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, have discovered and described a brand-new ...
WRAL

A Mysterious Fossil Points to the Origins of Lizards and Snakes

Some 240 million years ago, a storm rolled over the tropical edge of the supercontinent of Pangaea and battered the coastal islands. Rain lashed forests of horsetails and ferns, sweeping plants and ...
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History of evolution rewritten? Discovery of 205-million-year-old fossil points at modern lizard’s lineage

A 205-million-year-old fossil, hidden in a museum, has been identified as the oldest modern lizard, triggering a significant chapter in the history of evolution. The small, fossilized lizard, that has ...
EurekAlert!

Digging into the origin of lizards

A new fossil from Devon reveals what the oldest members of the lizard group looked like, and there are some surprises, according to a research team from the University of Bristol. The study is ...
The Washington Post

What the secret lives of lizards tell us about evolution

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 ...
AOL

9 Incredible Lizards That Look Like Dragons

One animal in Australia is so difficult to spot it has been named the hidden dragon lizard. The reptile, which blends perfectly into the reddish orange terrain, avoided documented sightings for years.
Yahoo

Lake Shasta was home to Shastasaurus, sea lizards, these other prehistoric marine reptiles

Like the rest of the West Coast, far Northern California was under water when early dinosaurs roamed North America. That doesn’t mean what would become Shasta County didn’t have its own amazing ...
Science Daily

How madagascar’s lizards became the island’s last hope for reforestation

After millions of years of evolutionary isolation, Madagascar developed an unparalleled array of wildlife, and recent research has uncovered an unsung ecological hero: the lizard. Though often ...
The New York Times

‘Pirate Lizards’ Can Get Around on 3 Legs

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to thrive. Trilobites Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 ...