Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of ...

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 ...

A 167-million-year-old fossil discovered on the Isle of Skye in Scotland is shaking up the way scientists think about the origins of snakes. The reptile, Breugnathair elgolensis, doesn’t quite fit ...

Pythons and anacondas are undeniably massive snakes, capable of reaching lengths and girths that make them some of the heaviest reptiles alive today. But even these modern giants pale in comparison to ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...