The eastern glass lizard is often mistaken for a snake. So you’ve got your hoe ready to whack off the head of a snake you found in your yard — but you should probably think twice. It might not be a ...

Photos shared by an Australian snake catcher show a bizarre snake-like lizard that was found lurking in a hotel during a conference. Sean Cade, founder of snake removal business Australian Snake ...

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 ...

David Kizirian's boot protected him when a deadly snake struck. And the expert in snakes and lizards honored fellow scientist Joseph B. Slowinski's memory by naming for him a species found in Vietnam.

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

Identifying snake and lizard eggs can be tricky. Experts look at size, shape, and color. Snake eggs are usually larger and ...

The intriguing Australian sleepy lizard has raised new questions about vertebrate immunity after the surprise discovery of the evolutionary disappearance of genes needed for some T cell production in ...

So you’ve got your hoe ready to whack off the head of a snake you found in your yard — but you should probably think twice. It might not be a snake at all and wildlife biologists will tell you in a ...