A remarkable fossil of the Cretaceous-period snake Tametara mirim in Brazil unveils new insights into snake evolution.

Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have ...

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. One of ...

Australia preserves one of the longest and most extraordinary fossil records on Earth, spanning more than 500 million years ...

The mystery won't be solved before the Destin Daniel Cretton -directed movie swings into theaters on July 31, but until then, ...

A new study challenges the familiar idea that the brain evolved by stacking rational systems on top of primitive emotional ...

Almost everyone has seen a lizard doing something that looks surprisingly familiar: push-ups. Just like people might do push-ups as part of a workout routine, lizards are often seen raising and ...

The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater proportion of the people on the planet. And yet those extra years aren't necessarily ...

A huge komodo dragon. Photo Credit: Suliman Alatiqi / Ocean Photographer of the Year Originating from the Indonesian islands, this apex predator is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the lizard ...

An Argentine Black and White Tegu spotted in a Lake Poinsett neighborhood. (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.) COCOA, Fla. – People who ...