A single vertebra dug out of a mine in southern Georgia has been used to identified a new genus and new species of lizard. Photo from Calin Razvan Fotograf via Unsplash An unidentified bone pulled ...

For 320 million years, a hidden story has been written in the skin of reptiles. Scientists have now decoded it, and what they ...

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

A team of paleontologists led by Chinese scientists has discovered the first known evidence of a bone tumor in a lizard preserved in Cretaceous-period amber, shedding new light on the prevalence of ...

BEIJING -- A team of paleontologists has discovered the first-known evidence of a bone tumor in a vertebrate preserved in amber, in the form of a 99-million-year-old lizard specimen that offers a rare ...

Beneath the scales of Australia’s iconic monitor lizards (commonly known as goannas), scientists have discovered an unexpected secret: a hidden layer of bony skin structures known as osteoderms.

While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence in lizards and ...