The mimic glass lizard is one of three legless varieties found in North Carolina and is losing habitat and numbers along the ...

So you’ve got your hoe ready to whack off the head of a snake you found in your yard — but you should probably think twice. It might not be a snake at all and wildlife biologists will tell you in a ...

That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. The News & Observer spoke with local wildlife experts to learn about these reptiles — where they ...

Scientists have discovered a strange Jurassic lizard on Scotland’s Isle of Skye that’s blurring the boundaries between snakes ...

Scientists discovered a 167-million-year-old lizard fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, that has snake-like jaws and teeth but a ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...

The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists ...

Where did snakes come from? It’s a question that’s puzzled researchers for years, and now they are even more confused. A new Jurassic fossil has been discovered and it's a curious mix of snake and ...