AUSTIN (KXAN) – Cutting beneath sand on the desert world of Arrakis, giant sandworms strike fear and inspire awe in the blockbuster “Dune” films. Introduced in the 1965 novel, the sandworm has grown ...

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Just south of the Mediterranean Sea in the arid landscape of Tunisia, layers of rock and soil hold evidence of past eras. Millions of years of pressure make the remains of ancient species turn from ...

They look like snakes, but don't be fooled: Legless, slithering amphisbaenians are more closely related to lizards than to boa constrictors. Now, the first complete skull of the ancestor of today's ...

For Nathalie Feiner, it was just another day in the lab. As part of her work on understanding how the common wall lizard is adapting to a changing climate, the evolutionary biologist was observing one ...

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