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 ...

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 ...

More than 120 million years ago in what is now modern Brazil, an ancient waterway was filled with all manner of strange creatures. These included dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sharks, bony fishes, a dizzying ...

A small creature with no legs can be found slithering through inches of soil or cover. It’s not a snake or a worm, wildlife officials said, and it could be deceiving people in California with its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.

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 ...