Paleontologists have made a stunning discovery on the Spanish island of Tenerife: a beautifully preserved, still articulated skeleton of a lizard from 700,000 years ago. Researchers believe that ...

The findings push back the origins of the lizard-snake group called Squamata by 35 million years to at least 205 million ...

The common lizard is a reptile. They are native to the UK and Ireland and can be found in heathlands, moorlands and grasslands. The shells of a turtle and a tortoise are part of their skeleton ...

That initial discovery, in 2017, has now been followed up with detailed examination of the fossil skeleton. Those studies, published in the journal Current Biology, show the flying lizard had a 2 ...