The United States is home to many snake species. While most are harmless, some can be very dangerous to humans. Knowing which ...

A HOUSE-CLEANING session turned into a frightening experience for a man in Kelantan when a cobra suddenly appeared in the ...

For as dangerous as humans are to many animals, the inverse is also true, and these animals do have a history of occasionally ...

The good thing – one of the good things – about being a wordsmith is that, unlike blacksmiths, locksmiths, gunsmiths, ...

Welcome to the town that refuses to tumble down the mountain! Jerome clings to Cleopatra Hill like a determined gecko on a wall. This former copper mining town has more personality than a room full of ...

If it was not part of the snake lineage, Breugnathair may have been an evolutionary dead end, with snake-like predatory ...

Scientists have long thought that a lizard losing a leg should be a death sentence. New evidence seems to overturn this ...

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

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, ...

WASHINGTON :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. So was it ...

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 ...