Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

A night lizards of the family Xantusiidae survived the giant asteroid strike that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago near the epicenter of the impact. Remarkably, these reptiles ...

New craft beer festival takes over Conway ...

First responders in East Texas managed to capture an alligator found in a rural family's backyard pool this week.

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from ...

From Latin dance and art classes, to motorcycle rallies and lectures, here's what's happening around Asheville in June.

“I wish we’d moved here ten years earlier,” is a refrain you’ll hear so often in Sweetwater that it might as well be the unofficial town motto, right behind whatever the actual motto is (which I’m ...

Wow, it appears summer has arrived with a vengeance. It came marching in on Friday with some of the hottest temperatures of ...

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 ...