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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these ...

A newly discovered 80-million-year-old snake fossil from Brazil is reshaping evolutionary debates. This exceptionally ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Mimic glass lizard faces rapid decline as longleaf pine habitat vanishes. Center for Biological Diversity petitions USFWS to list ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes. Sometimes, supposedly reasonable assumptions set researchers on the wrong ...

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 ...

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 ...