Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

Check out these ten amazing facts about the US National Mammal, the American bison. Know about its ecological significance, ...

Have you ever compared your toes to your siblings or friends when you were little? And, be honest, how shocked were you to ...

Crocodilians have survived mass extinctions without breaking a sweat.

Sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still alive today. While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived ...

On the planet from before dinosaurs, tardigrades can survive extreme heat, cold and even mass extinctions. Advanced sunscreens, stronger space medicine to crops, they hold the key ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of ...

How did life survive after mass extinctions? Scientists study fossils to find the answer ... That means the basic “jobs” these animals played in the ecosystem — like digging into mud, ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...