Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their limbless cousins. A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. Scientists have unearthed the remains of a gigantic, 200 ...

A gigantic sea monster from the era of the dinosaurs has been discovered and named after a Norse snake. The 24-foot-long creature is a new species of mosasaur—aquatic, carnivorous lizards that lived ...

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That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. North Carolina is home to three kinds of legless lizards, also called glass lizards, which look ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like traits.

North Carolina is home to three legless lizard species, often mistaken for snakes. Glass lizards differ from snakes with ear openings, eyelids and more rigid bodies. Glass lizards eat insects and ...