Lizard

In a thrilling discovery for Egyptologists and ancient history buffs, the contents of six ancient animal sarcophagi have been examined, all without a single scientists opening a coffin lid, thanks to groundbreaking neutron tomography.The method was used by scientists from the British Museum and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) not to avoid any fabled curses linked with disturbing mummified remains, but to preserve the artifacts in their natural, whole state while being able to sneak a peek at their…

A friendship between GloRilla and Boosie Badazz may be forming, as the two sparked a back-and-forth over the weekend when the Baton Rouge rapper took to social media and revealed he named his dog GloRilla.“I done named my dog GloRilla,” Boosie said in the clip, before calling out, “Glo! Big Glo! Old GloRilla, man.” After catching wind of Boosie’s video, the Memphis up-and-comer took to social media to return the favor, naming her pet lizard after Boosie.“Boosie! Hey there, Boosie Woosie,” GloRilla yelled in a video of her…

Tyrannosaurus rex might not have been puckering up for a good ol' snog, but the dinosaur's teeth were not exposed like a 'gator's; instead, they protected behind a pair of lizardy lips.That's the result of work investigating the teeth and bones of reptiles and dinosaurs, present and past, finally resolving a long-standing debate in paleontology. Paleoartists can now complete the grins of T. rex and its theropod cousins with thin, scaly lips, and paleontologists can better understand the bones these dinosaurs left…

Illustration: Hank SharpeYou wouldn’t want to swim in Late Cretaceous seas. If you’ve seen the first Jurassic World movie, you’ll recognize a mosasaur as the creature that leapt from the water to eat a great white shark. That film may have exaggerated the real size of mosasaurs, but the effect is genuine: some species could reach terrifying lengths. These reptiles spent their lives in the water, but they breathed air. They had fins, long tails, mouths full of teeth, and could be anywhere from 10 to 50 feet in length.…

ANI Washington, December 6 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 Tortworth in Gloucestershire, South West England. The…

“It was raining on the afternoon I almost choked on a pebble.” On October 11 of this year, Alan Moore published his first book of short stories, Illuminations. Kind of incredible given the length of his career. Even if you consider that the majority of his work is within comics, he still has a body of work of prose that could have been collected before now. Granted, some of that work was adapted into comics or illustrated prose & verse by Avatar Press during the mid to late ’00s. Among them was his World Fantasy…

The first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, believed to have been found by the fossil hunter Mary Anning, was thought to have been lost forever when German bombs rained down on London in World War II.But two plaster casts of the distinctive dolphin-like reptile have now been unearthed, even though there was no record of them ever being made.Researchers Dean Lomax, from the University of Manchester in northwest England, and Judy Massare, from New York State University, described the finds as "historically important".​"The…

If rock is dead, nobody told King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.Since 2011, the six-piece Aussie posse from Melbourne and surrounding areas has steadily amassed one of the largest and most diverse discographies in modern rock while cultivating an endearingly-obsessed corner of Reddit with almost zero radio play. What started as psych-inflected surf rock on a pair of debut EPs has evolved into 20 full-length albums and bootlegs that span decades of sounds — garage, spaghetti-western, thrash metal, synth-pop, jam,…

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 persistence of its living relative, the tuatara.The reptile is named Opisthiamimus gregori. It looks like a lizard, but like New Zealand’s tuatara, it is not one. Lizards are squamates, an order of reptiles that includes snakes and worm lizards. Rhynchocephalians are a distinct group that diverged from lizards in the Triassic…

A new study has shown that the concept of the mammalian 'lizard brain' can be well and truly put to bed.Based on a study that examined brains of bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps), large lizards from the Australian desert, scientists have shown that mammal and reptile brains evolved separately from a common ancestor. It's another nail in the coffin of the notion of the so-called triune brain.The idea of the lizard brain first emerged and rose to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, based on comparative anatomical studies.…