Lizards, with their extraordinary variations, have helped transform what ecologists thought possible in a single species. Boasting more than 7,000 different types, the reptiles are found around the ...

Here’s a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It’s home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, ...

Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of a lizard, you probably think of a scaly reptile with a tail and four visible limbs. The thing is, not all ...

Names such as Gila monster and Komodo dragon, conjure up images of creatures more suited to realms of science fiction. Yet these mini-dinosaurs are very real, with many of the approximate 6,000 ...

Snakes, turtles, frogs, lizards and other reptiles may not be the cuddliest pets in the world, but they actually do make good pets! Watching these creatures slither and crawl is a really fascinating ...

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what the earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be even harder to go all the way to a time before dinosaurs ...

Around 252 million years ago, an event dubbed the Permo-Triassic extinction event or "The Great Dying" rewrote the story of life on Earth. Researchers aren’t sure exactly what led to this global ...

Nearly one fifth of all reptiles — turtles, snakes, lizards and crocodiles — are on a slippery slope toward extinction due to loss of habitat, overharvesting and other factors, a new report says. The ...