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

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

Biologists studying an Australian lizard observed something no one had ever documented in a vertebrate before. A single female produced offspring through two different reproductive methods during the ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Scientists working in northern Australia have identified a previously unknown species of slider skink in the Gulf of ...

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