A newly discovered armored lizard that lived alongside dinosaurs has been named after a villain from Tolkien’s "The Hobbit." Bolg amondol was a "goblin prince" among dinosaurs around 78 million years ...

A recent study published in Royal Society Open Science confirmed that the 205-million-year-old fossil named Cryptovaranoides Microlanius is the oldest known modern lizard, reshaping the timeline of ...

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed. The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is ...

It turns out Jim Morrison wasn’t the first Lizard King. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor who studied a reptile that roamed the tropical forests of Southeast Asia 40 million years ago has ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient feature that some lineages inherited and others later lost.

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Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

Rendered CT scan of Heloderma horridum and a skull of the modern monstersaur Heloderma horridum. (Dr. Hank Woolley via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A newly discovered armored lizard that lived alongside ...