A Canadian man who tried to sell high-quality dinosaur fossils smuggled out of China to undercover agents at a Tucson gem show last year is getting booted out of the country and fined $25,000. Jun ...

A 125 million year old fossil lizard had a wing-like membrane stretched over extended ribs that could have helped it to glide through the air, archaeologists say. This arrangement has been seen in the ...

A team of paleontologists led by Chinese scientists has discovered the first known evidence of a bone tumor in a lizard preserved in Cretaceous-period amber, shedding new light on the prevalence of ...

Paignton Zoo in Devon has hatched three very special – and very beautiful - Chinese crocodile lizards. In 2018, Paignton Zoo became the first major zoological collection in the UK to breed this ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A litter of pint-sized Chinese crocodile lizards was born at the Staten Island Zoo in West Brighton this month, a spokesman said on Monday. The seven semiaquatic lizards are the ...

Lizards are generally considered as harmless reptiles that creep along the walls, rest on rocks, or hide under plant leaves.

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