The lizard-like tuatara already was an oddball. Its superpowers include a century-long lifespan, resistance to many diseases and a unique tolerance (for a reptile) to the cold. Now, it turns out, a ...

There was once a thriving group of reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. Rhynchocephalia is a reptile order that evolved around 240 million years ago. These reptiles used to live ...

150 million years ago, a prehistoric reptile unlike modern lizards slinked around what is now Wyoming. An ancient rhynchocephalian, the insect-eating animal’s discovery could shed light on the ...

It looks like a lizard. It walks like a lizard. It sunbathes and lounges and eats like a lizard, but the tuatara is not a lizard. What the tuatara actually is goes as far back as the dawn of the ...

The specimen shows that modern tuatara found in New Zealand are little changed from ancestors that lived 190 million years ago. By Jack Tamisiea New Zealand’s tuatara look like somber iguanas. But ...

Researchers have discovered a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile that belongs to the same ancient lineage as New Zealand's living tuatara. A team of scientists describe the new species ...

Discovery sheds light on the tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted by lizards “What’s important about the tuatara is that it ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An extinct reptile that lived among the dinosaurs 150 million years ago has been unearthed in the badlands of Wyoming.

Credit information: Julius Csotonyi for the Smithsonian Institution. Note to editors: Photos of the new reptile fossil, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life and a 3D model of the new ...