Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

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 ...

Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their limbless cousins. A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved ...

North Carolina is home to three legless lizard species, often mistaken for snakes. Glass lizards differ from snakes with ear openings, eyelids and more rigid bodies. Glass lizards eat insects and ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. 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 lizards ...

The eastern glass lizard is often mistaken for a snake. So you’ve got your hoe ready to whack off the head of a snake you found in your yard — but you should probably think twice. It might not be a ...

Mimic glass lizard faces rapid decline as longleaf pine habitat vanishes. Center for Biological Diversity petitions USFWS to list species as endangered. Listing could trigger critical habitat ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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 you’ve got your hoe ready to whack off the head of a snake you found in your yard — but you should probably think twice. It might not be a snake at all and wildlife biologists will tell you in a ...