Fossil identified as tiniest marine lizard specimen "Yet again, we were challenged to fill our knowledge gap by testing our preconceived notion," said paleontologist Takuya Konishi.

Scientists Find World's Smallest Lizard. Two U.S. biologists have discovered the world's tiniest lizard inhabiting, appropriately enough, a very tiny Caribbean island.

The “tinosaur” is no more. It actually never was. Scientists who trumpeted the discovery earlier this year of the world’s tiniest dinosaur have retracted their study findings in l… ...

Two American biologists have discovered the world's smallest known gecko _ a lizard so tiny it can curl up comfortably on a dime. The Jaragua gecko is the smallest of all 23,000 species of ...

Critically Endangered Sombrero Lizard Makes Epic Comeback From 100 To 1,600 Individuals In 6 ... is only 38 hectares (94 acres) – but even the tiniest of islands can be of critical ...

The Oculudentavis khaungraae skull, preserved in amber from Myanmar. Credit: Natural History Museum An international team of scientists have discovered a tiny new species of dinosaur, believed to ...

A new study says a tiny skull entombed in 99-million-year-old amber thought to belong to a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was misidentified.

A spectacular fossil skull preserved in a drop of amber is not from a tiny flying dinosaur but probably the remains of an ancient lizard, according to a retraction of the original research ...

When researchers described the hummingbird-size Oculudentavis khaungraae in March 2020, it was hailed as the tiniest dinosaur ever found (birds are a lineage of dinosaurs that survive to the ...

An amber-encased fossil seemed to be a hummingbird-size dinosaur. Now it’s been reclassified as a big-eyed lizard. Some 99 million years ago in what's now Myanmar, tree resin oozes over and ...