Visitors can get up close and hands on with snakes, lizards, and other fascinating creatures during “Reptiles Around the ...

A paleontological discovery on the Scottish Isle of Skye reveals the fossilized remains of a Jurassic reptile with a surprising physique, combining characteristics of lizards and snakes. This ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

A remarkable fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, unearthed on Scotland's Isle of Skye, offers crucial insights into snake evolution. This 167-million-year-old reptile exhibits a unique blend of ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...

We may need to slither back the clock on snake evolution, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. In fact, we may have been pretty wrong about just how snakes ...

Hundreds of medical students, staff and their families attended a “Snakes Alive” presentation at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) March 11. Bruce Shwedick, director of ...

Scientists in Assam record India’s first albino Asian water snake. The discovery aids research, genetics studies and wildlife ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...