Some 15 years ago a fossilized lizard the size of a chameleon was uncovered deep in Italy's Dolomites mountain range. Buried for hundreds of millions of years under sand and clay, Megachirella ...

Move over Godzilla. There's a new "mother of all lizards" in town. Known as Megachirella wachtleri, this ancient lizard is the direct ancestor of 10,000 current species of reptiles (including lizards ...

The first lizards were a hardy bunch, it seems. Based on a small fossil found in the Italian Alps, these ancient reptiles appear to have survived a mass extinction that wiped out more than 90 per cent ...

Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, ...

A 240-million-year-old fossil has been identified as the “mother of all lizards”, the ancestor of today’s lizards and snakes. Despite its name, Megachirella wachtleri was actually quite a small ...

HBO's "Game of Thrones" features a "Mother of Dragons," but a fossil that's hundreds of millions of years old was recently identified as the "mother of all lizards" (and snakes, too). This ancient ...