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![A pictured captured of the underside of the chameleon spotted on the branches in a tree moments before it died.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q8drGhvYDhfMWEXnjxmry7-320-80.jpg)
Watch chameleon erupt in color 'as if uttering her last words' in her final moments before death
By Hannah Osborne published
Footage of Labord's chameleon in last moments of her short life shows her skin burst into 'chaotic technicolor patterns' — a spectacle never observed in the wild before.
![Lyon's grassland skink on dried mud.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MbgCbZvyBj8ySpL232PPJ5-320-80.jpg)
Surprise discovery of snake-like lizard feared extinct leaves scientists amazed
By Patrick Pester published
Researchers found three species of skink in Australia they feared could be extinct, including the Lyon's grassland striped skink.
![Two scaly earless monitor lizards sit together side by side on top of some leaves](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9YFQH4gGEGGLygP46AgeiP-320-80.png)
Earless monitor lizards: The 'Holy Grail' of reptiles that looks like a mini dragon
By Patrick Pester published
Researchers are only beginning to understand the cryptic lives of the earless monitor lizards of Borneo.
![An artist's drawing of a mosasaur.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/d3c8KRqAB5WCsoJAsmdtsE-320-80.jpg)
Newly discovered Cretaceous sea monster named after world-ending Norse serpent
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
Paleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur with "angry eyebrows" that lived 80 million years ago.
![A geckos head covered in white and gray scales with an eye of the same color surrounded by and orange ring.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WnmdNeXqoXjhJxGcKUXPBX-320-80.jpg)
This psychedelic-eyed gecko isn't what we thought it was
By Harry Baker published
The bright-eyed reptiles were identified as a new species after a genetic analysis of other geckos revealed they were separate from another closely related species.
![An artist’s drawing of a Triassic lizard.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S9JsjYiGrLzEqiUDVWDGDk-320-80.jpg)
Ancient lizard with teeth like butcher knives 're-calibrates the whole shebang' of reptile evolution
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
Despite being palm-size, this Triassic lizard had a vicious bite.
![The largest lizards are Komodo dragons from Indonesia.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6AxBGxrtbSAkmhLmtdvGLX-320-80.jpg)
Lizards: From tiny geckos to giant Komodo dragons
By Patrick Pester published
Lizards are a diverse group of reptiles made up of thousands of species around the world, including giant Komodo dragons and chameleons the size of your fingertip.
![An illustration of lystrosaurs with short-tailed, lizard-like bodies, tusks, and beaks. The Triassic animals are standing near a waterway in front of some mountains and ominous clouds.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cVKgarvDZERRErt98kjM9G-320-80.jpg)
Mummified, spread-eagled Triassic 'shovel lizards' look like roadkill and likely died in a drought
By Stephanie Pappas published
While surviving a mass extinction, strange tusked animals called lystrosaurs may have faced repeated drought, "mummy" fossils suggest.
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