Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...
Artistic reconstruction of Bolg amondol, depicted raiding an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest amidst the lush Kaiparowits Formation habitat. For 20 years, the remains of a giant lizard that lived ...
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 ...
Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.
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 ...