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One of the world’s largest species of lizards, an ornate monitor, was found abandoned in an Alameda home last month, police said. On Dec. 24, the property manager of the home reported that a lizard ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Former tenants left a massive lizard, called an ornate Niles monitor, behind in their home, Alameda police announced on Monday. Police dispatchers were called about it, and they, in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...

Like many residents of warm climates, the brown lizards scurrying around New Orleans have a worse temper in extreme heat. According to a new study from Tulane researchers, these invasive brown anoles ...

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See a rare and nearly complete skull of Pachycephalosaurus, a dinosaur famed for its domed head that lived around 67 million years ago. Pachycephalosaurus, whose scientific name means “thick-headed ...

A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will not be on view for long. The near-complete skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is getting a prehistoric holiday gift. Philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt have donated a nearly complete Pachycephalosaurus skull to the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History says it will display a rare and “remarkable” dinosaur skull that was unearthed in South Dakota. The well-preserved Pachycephalosaurus skull was ...