First fossil record of Varanus (Reptilia, Squamata) from Switzerland and the earliest occurrences of the genus in Europe

Macroanatomical, Histological and Microtomographic Study of the Teeth of the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis)—Adaptation to Hunting

(2023) Maciej Janeczek et al.   Biology-Basel

A conserved tooth resorption mechanism in modern and fossil snakes

(2023) A. R. H. LeBlanc et al.   Nature Communications

Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic UK microvertebrate faunas

(2023) Simon Wills et al.   Papers in Palaeontology

A new stem-varanid lizard (Reptilia, Squamata) from the early Eocene of China

(2022) Liping Dong et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Crushed but not lost: a colubriform snake (Serpentes) from the Miocene Swiss Molasse, identified through the use of micro-CT scanning technology

(2022) Georgios L. Georgalis et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Osteological atlas of new lizards from the Phosphorites du Quercy (France), based on historical, forgotten, fossil material

(2021) Georgios L. Georgalis et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

Reinterpretation of girdled lizard remains from Switzerland documents the first occurrence of the lacertid Janosikia outside of Germany

(2021) Andrea Villa et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Oldest co-occurrence of Varanus and Python from Africa—first record of squamates from the early Miocene of Moghra Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

(2020) Georgios L. Georgalis et al.   PeerJ

Phylogenomics of monitor lizards and the role of competition in dictating body size disparity

(2020) Ian G Brennan et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A new species of Palaeopython (Serpentes) and other extinct squamates from the Eocene of Dielsdorf (Zurich, Switzerland)

(2019) Georgios L. Georgalis et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Poor but classic: The squamate fauna from the late Miocene of Pikermi, near Athens, Greece

(2019) Georgios L. Georgalis   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

The Only Known Jawed Vertebrate with Four Eyes and the Bauplan of the Pineal Complex

(2018) Krister T. Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New varanid remains from the Miocene (MN4–MN5) of France: inferring fossil lizard phylogeny from subsets of large morphological data sets

(2018) Marc Louis Augé et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Revision of Varanus marathonensis (Squamata, Varanidae) based on historical and new material: morphology, systematics, and paleobiogeography of the European monitor lizards

(2018) Andrea Villa et al.   PLoS One

A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology

(2017) Martin Ivanov et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The last European varanid: demise and extinction of monitor lizards (Squamata, Varanidae) from Europe

(2017) Georgios L. Georgalis et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Lizards and snakes from the late Miocene hominoid locality of Ravin de la Pluie (Axios Valley, Greece)

(2017) Georgios L. Georgalis et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

New material of the ziphodont mesoeucrocodylian Iberosuchus from the Eocene of Languedoc, southern France

(2016) Jeremy E. Martin   ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE

Illustrating ontogenetic change in the dentition of the Nile monitor lizard,Varanus niloticus: a case study in the application of geometric morphometric methods for the quantification of shape-size heterodonty

(2015) Domenic C. D'Amore   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Vertebrate microfossils from the Upper Freshwater Molasse in the Swiss Molasse Basin: Implications for the evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin during the Miocene Climate Optimum

(2015) Jürg Jost et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A theropod tooth assemblage from the lower Aguja Formation (early Campanian) of West Texas, and the roles of small theropod and varanoid lizard mesopredators in a tropical predator guild

(2015) Steven L. Wick et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A new Late Agenian (MN2a, Early Miocene) fossil assemblage from Wallenried (Molasse Basin, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland)

(2015) Bastien Mennecart et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Fossil lizard from central Europe resolves the origin of large body size and herbivory in giant Canary Island lacertids

(2015) Andrej Čerňanský et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A new Late Agenian (MN2a, Early Miocene) fossil assemblage from Wallenried (Molasse Basin, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland)

(2015) Bastien Mennecart et al.   PalZ

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships of Palaeogene ziphodont eusuchians and the status of Pristichampsus Gervais, 1853

(2013) Christopher A. Brochu   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Molecular evidence for an Asian origin of monitor lizards followed by Tertiary dispersals to Africa and Australasia

(2012) N. Vidal et al.   Biology Letters

Earliest Example of a Giant Monitor Lizard (Varanus, Varanidae, Squamata)

(2012) Jack L. Conrad et al.   PLoS One

EVOLUTION OF EXTREME BODY SIZE DISPARITY IN MONITOR LIZARDS (VARANUS)

(2011) David C. Collar et al.   EVOLUTION

High-resolution stratigraphy from the continental record of the Middle Miocene Northern Alpine Foreland Basin of Switzerland

(2009) Daniel Kälin et al.   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of the Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae)

(2009) Scott A. Hocknull et al.   PLoS One

Helodermatid Lizard from the Miocene of Florida, the Evolution of the Dentary in Helodermatidae, and Comments on Dentary Morphology in Varanoidea

(2008) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Earliest African record of theVaranusstem-clade (Squamata: Varanidae) from the early Oligocene of Egypt

(2008) Krister T. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY