Did the first modern tetrapods, our own distant ancestors, emerge in the temperate Devonian landscapes of southern Gondwana, ...

Lizards often resemble mythical creatures found in fairy tales. Read this to learn about lizards that look like dragons.

Most scientists agree amphibians and amniotes separated at the start of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago ...

But the fossil record shows the earliest members of this amniote group were small and looked rather like lizards ... This proves the creatures were moving about on dry land.

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

If you thought dinosaurs were the earliest land-walking, clawed creatures to leave their mark on Earth, we have (somewhat) ...

A baby monitor lizard was caught hiding in a grandmother's bedroom in Thailand. The hatchling sparked alarm when it slithered into the house of Boonpha Mee-ngern, 67, in Nakhon Ratchasima, on May 19.

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

The bodies of herbivorous reptiles tend to be big and clunky ... for reptiles - skeletal fossils from Canada of a lizard-like creature named Hylonomus dating to around 320 million years ago ...

When most people hear the word “iguana,” they think of the very large green lizards from Mexico that have become established ...