There are legless reptiles besides snakes that slither across the ground in North Carolina. Here’s what to know about them.

Despite its name and appearance, the slow worm is a legless lizard, not a snake. It can shed its tail as a defence mechanism and regrow it over time, although it never returns to ...

Pace Library ended their part of the county’s summer reading program with a bang on July 15, putting on an educational and interactive display for all in attendance. The interactive experience ...

A draft strategy to help protect and restore the areas biodiversity for future generations in Brimbank is out for public ...

Despite what they look like and what they are called, a slow worm is neither a worm nor a snake. These small creatures, which ...

As stag beetle populations decline in Europe, Surrey Wildlife Trust encourages local residents to aid conservation efforts by ...

Rubbish dumped illegally on critically endangered grasslands in Altona will be removed after funding for the clean up was ...

From OcracokeObserver.com The Eastern glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) became an object of fascination for me when I saw ...

Snakes and lizards share a common ancestor, and both belong to the order Squamata. However, while lizards retained their legs, snakes evolved to become legless. The key to understanding this lies ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Night lizards also had a fairly small geographic range—another characteristic that should have made it difficult for them to persist after the asteroid strike, Lo adds.

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ...