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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 ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused a mass extinction that wiped out 75% of Earth’s animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. But “night” lizards survived. A new Yale study has ...

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 ...