Science news articles about 'legless lizard'

The fossil of a legged ancient relative of legless lizards has been found - and it's nothing like a snake.

Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species ... ) protected area that is the Cerrado’s second largest. The lizard, of the Bachia genus, resembles a snake due ...

The tiny-limbed creature is the first of 14 new species to be identified from a January expedition to Brazil's central savanna.

... its prey in minutes, making it the kind of creature generally to be avoided. But far from steering clear of the legless lizards, researchers at the world leading Clodomiro ...

Scientists discover a new species of lizard in Cambodia, which has neither eyes nor legs.

Poisonous caterpillars, legless lizards and rare Sumatran tiger cubs - the pick of this week's images from the natural world

The mysterious "worm lizard" has finally found its evolutionary home; the legless animals are closely related to a group of lizards named the lacertids, a new fossil intermediate indicates.