Biologists have long treated the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient inheritance, passed down and occasionally ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a rare new lizard species with no front arms and only back limbs, revealing how ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Scientists working in northern Australia have identified a previously unknown species of slider skink in the Gulf of ...

The newly described Mirasaura grauvogeli from the Middle Triassic had a striking feather-like crest, hinting that complex skin appendages arose far earlier than previously believed. Its bird-like ...

Scientists in Vietnam found a “long”-legged creature with a row of “dagger-like” spines on its back and discovered a new species, a study said Photo from Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Ziegler, Do and Ngo (2025) ...

Scientists have identified a new giant lizard, Bolg amondol, from Utah’s Kaiparowits Formation, named after Tolkien’s goblin prince. Part of the monstersaur lineage, Bolg reveals that multiple large ...

Komodo National Park in Indonesia — home to the world's biggest lizard, the Komodo dragon — is at risk from the same visitors who hope to see one of these incredible creatures. Tourism brings money ...

This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, by a herpetologist.