A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by ...

“All evidence indicates that the new species is related to the modern-day checkerboard worm lizard.” Using micro-computed tomography, they assessed the anatomy of the new taxon against other ...

Some camps prepare kids for the school year ahead, while others focus on topics such as robotics, video game design and ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Plant anatomy focuses on what kind of body parts ... wildflower identification applies equally well to birds, mammals, lizards, butterflies and everything else. Just remember that you don ...

For more than 70 years, thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, have scurried across sidewalks and lurked in your garden. They're all over Cincinnati, but the reptiles aren't ...

Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how ...

A new species of lizard, the Scawfell Island sunskink, has been discovered by researchers on an island north-east of Mackay. The island has the rare distinction of hosting two unique breeds ...