and took place in the northern region of the Espinhaço Mountains. There, a team found multiple specimens of a worm lizard ...

McKITTRICK, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity formally petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today to protect the Temblor legless lizard under the state’s Endangered Species Act ...

Slithering up to three feet long, the reptile belongs to a new genus and species of amphisbaenians, a “charismatic group” of “legless lizards” that has “attracted and puzzled researchers ...