With just its head and front legs peeking out from its underground burrow, the Mexican mole lizard could pass for a slender, pink lizard — until it emerges completely, its body etched with ring after ...

It’s not a snake. It’s not a worm. And as far as legless lizards go, the Mexican mole lizard is a strange one. Hours after setting up a pitfall trap that is designed to catch any animal that walks ...

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. The worm ...