August 2020

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be out of date. Please look at the timestamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SOUTH CAROLINA (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) — A rare lizard has been spotted…

LEXINGTON, SC (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) - A rare lizard has been spotted in South Carolina and wildlife officials are sounding the alarm bells. FOX 46 had the chance to speak with a coordinator of a local reptile and amphibian rescue…

A team of scientists has discovered a 240 million year old reptile measuring 15ft (4.5m) long containing the remains of a second 13ft (4m) thalattosaurus or 'sea lizard' - shortly swallowed long before the largest reptile's death,…

Reported sightings of a large, invasive lizard species crawling in and around Aiken County could be…

the tuatara is old. 250 million years old. This is when this bizarre creature shared its last common ancestor with other reptiles before further evolving and diverging. It was once one of many species of Rhynocephalia…

By European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Institute of Bioinformatics August 8, 2020 International scientists and Ngātiwai, a Maori tribe, have teamed up to sequence the genome of a rare reptile, the tuatara, uncovering some…

In the evolutionary tree of life, the New Zealand lizard-like tuatara is on a branch all to itself.In the days of the dinosaurs, this amazing animal had many relatives all over the world, and yet now there is nothing else like it on Earth.…