For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young Riley Black - Science Correspondent Fossils ...