Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution as a group. Now, a ...

A remarkable fossil of the Cretaceous-period snake Tametara mirim in Brazil unveils new insights into snake evolution. Predating many modern snake species, this fossil showcases early neuroanatomical ...

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, ...

Some of the most powerful medicines we will ever find are already here, carried in the fangs, stingers, and saliva of ...

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

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 ...

For 320 million years, a hidden story has been written in the skin of reptiles. Scientists have now decoded it, and what they found in one group of Australian lizards has forced a rethink of one of ...

Equipped with powerful jaws and finely serrated teeth, paleontologists say the 43-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile deserves the name Tylosaurus rex. After remeasuring dozens of mosasaur specimens ...

"I didn't know if it was venomous, if it was going to attack me,” Eric Johnson said of the encounter Eric Johnson/Facebook Arizona man Eric Johnson found a giant lizard swimming in his backyard pool ...

A new study has found that one aggressive form of a common European lizard has driven two long-standing color types out of many populations. The finding shows that a single variant can overturn a ...