Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

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

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

The five-part BBC series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

The giant girdled lizard has several other names: sungazer, giant dragon lizard, ouvolk, and giant zonure. But perhaps its most interesting name is its scientific one– Smaug giganteu s.

A lobster fisherman has had an amusing close encounter - with a giant seagull. The bird menace even wanted some of popular local personality Dan Gilbert’s catch.

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

These aren’t the only impressive and unusual sculptures you’ll find lurking outdoors in the Bay Area. From shambling ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...