Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

A recent study has uncovered an extraordinary survival story—night lizards, small reptiles that still inhabit parts of North and Central America, managed to endure the asteroid impact that wiped out ...

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A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision, which led to the ...