Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

SNAKES, frogs and lizards have been caught entering mainland Europe and the UK on potted plants and cut flowers, according to ...

Less than a decade later, World War II swallowed Germany. The fossils were housed in the Old Academy building of the Bavarian ...

The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many ...

New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, and phylogenetic relationships, revealing aspects like cannibalism and the ...

One of the world’s best insect undertakers is making a comeback. Populations of the American burying beetle, North America’s largest carrion beetle, have been decimated due mainly to habitat ...

The oldest known lizard has reclaimed its crown clade. A contentious fossil has been re-analyzed by paleobiologists and declared the earliest known member of the lizard-snake group. The critter at the ...

The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are stacked one upon another. The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as ...

Komodo dragons are an endangered species. Image by Gudkovandrey via Depositphotos. The Komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world, reaching up to 10 feet long. Found in Indonesia, it’s famous ...

Perhaps most interestingly, in our own genus it played a role unlike that across any other vertebrate lineage known so far,” added van Holstein. The findings appeared in the journal Nature ...

Directed attention is widely recognized as a feature of animal awareness. This descriptive study used the frequency of gaze shifts in lizards and birds as an indicator of the rate at which the animals ...