Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while ...

Today's living night lizards—like Xantusia vigilis (pictured)—are descendants of a common ancestor that lived roughly 90 million years ago, well before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth 66 million ...

Long after the dinosaurs disappeared from Earth around 66 million years ago, some remarkable reptile lineages continued to survive and evolve. While modern reptiles are not all direct descendants of ...

Edward Cope and his mentors explored the marl pits of New Jersey to turn up some of the first dinosaurs found in North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mini dragon? Baby dinosaur? Whatever you choose to call an iguana, one thing is for sure − these are among the most fascinating ...

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.

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic period. Archosauromorphs walked — across a 10,000-mile hellscape — so ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (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 ...

The Pteranodon Family goes to Lizard Island. / The family helps a beached Ichthyosaurs. The Conductor takes the Pteranodon Family for a special trip to Lizard Island, where they discover that it's ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...