The public is invited to join the Sweetwater County Library System in kicking off its summer reading program with one of ...

The tuatara, a reptile native to New Zealand, looks like a lizard but belongs to a completely different evolutionary branch.

As a strictly protected species, sand lizards are dependent on the preservation of their habitats—especially in view of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers in Nepal have discovered three new-to-science species of bent-toed geckos — Cyrtodactylus chitwanensis (Chitwan Bent-toed Gecko ...

Through this process, the team identified three main features that place Cryptovaranoides in the Lepidosauria superorder that contains Squamata (but not archosauromorphs). On the other hand, the team ...

Later examples include this Roman "lorica squamata" — Latin for "scale armor" — that was discovered at the Timacum Minus archaeological site in eastern Serbia. Timacum Minus was a Roman fort ...

Zietlow, Amelia R. Boyd, Clint A. Van Vranken, Nathan E. Jormungandr walhallaensis a new mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasauroidea) from the Pierre Shale Formation (Pembina Member: Middle Campanian) of ...

Within the Squamata order of reptiles is the Lacertilia suborder, which contains all known lizard species. We can further break this suborder down into five main groups, or infraorders. These five ...

The Saint Lucia racer is almost certainly the rarest snake in the world, a title inherited from its close neighbour in the Caribbean, the Antiguan racer. This small, harmless snake was once abundant ...