Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Second, the humerus is not twisted like those lizard-like creatures that sprawled, rather than walked upright. Then there is the elbow joint. Unlike in other sprawling pareiasaurs, ...

Today, modern lizards offer a good example. But with the discovery of the cow-sized Bunostegos, ... The shoulder joint (1), humerus (2), knee-like elbow hinge (3), ...

A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of Utah that sat in storage for 20 years has now led to the discovery of ...

A specimen retrieved from a cupboard of the Natural History Museum in London has shown that modern lizards originated in the Late Triassic and not the Middle Jurassic as previously thought.

This fossilised relative of living lizards such as monitor lizards, gila monsters and slow worms was identified in a stored museum collection from the 1950s, including specimens from a quarry near ...

Lab Animal - Blood sample collection in lizards. ... This site is located near the shoulder joint at the caudal aspect of the humerus. Lymph dilution can occur at this site.

The fossil is more than six-and-half feet long and, once it had been wrapped in a protective “jacket” and affixed to two pieces of wood, weighed nearly 1,000 pounds.

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...