New genetic evidence may solve the long-running dispute over whether snakes evolved from lizards in the ocean or lizards on land. The latest evidence comes down firmly on the side of land. Both sides ...

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 ...

In a study spanning four decades, researchers from the University of Hong Kong's Research Division for Ecology & Biodiversity (HKU) in the Faculty of Science, and Toho University's Department of ...

Researchers have discovered that predation by snakes is pushing lizards to be active at warmer body temperatures on islands where snakes are present, in comparison to islands free from snakes. The ...