For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young Riley Black - Science Correspondent Fossils ...

Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...

The frilled shark, also called the lizard shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), is one of the ocean’s most ancient species. Its appearance and primitive features have barely changed since the Cretaceous ...

More than 20 years ago, Jonathan Losos was in the Bahamas pursuing one of his favorite pastimes — catching and measuring anole lizards — when he spotted a familiar reptilian flash on a branch. But ...