Isabel Cameron is a Science Reporter at Newsweek, based in London, U.K. She has covered a range of health topics such as oncology, mental health treatment and weight loss drugs. Isabel joined ...

North Carolina is home to three kinds of legless lizards, also called glass lizards, which look remarkably similar to snakes: the Eastern glass lizard, the slender glass lizard and the mimic glass ...

A new species of legless lizard was found slithering along the slopes of Serra da Neve, the second-tallest mountain in Angola. Legless lizards, known as skinks, resemble snakes, hiding among ...

LOS ANGELES— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Fish and Game Commission unanimously agreed today to protect the Temblor legless lizard under the ...

For the nature watcher with steady nerves, however, there are some clear differences between a legless lizard and its venomous doppelganger. Lizards, legless or otherwise, have external ear ...

The diverse list of 968 new species includes previously unknown dinosaurs and extinct creatures, beetles, moths, sea slugs, geckos, fish, frogs, spiders, plants, fungi, worms and a legless skink.