Scientists have discovered a strange Jurassic lizard on Scotland’s Isle of Skye that’s blurring the boundaries between snakes and lizards.

A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named ...

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of ...

Scientists were left stunned by the hook-toothed, 167-million-year-old fossil which blends reptile characteristics.

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of ...

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes.

As we enter the Year of the Snake, we take the opportunity to revisit the starring roles of this mystic animal in art. Snake is the sixth animal sign in the 12-year zodiac cycle and based on ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

A study published in the journal Nature by an international team of researchers, led by the American Museum of Natural History and including National Museums Scotland, describes a previously unkn ...