This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, ...

Scientists working in northern Australia have identified a previously unknown species of slider skink in the Gulf of ...

Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday. Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are native to Australia and ...

Nature expresses itself most vividly through colour, and lizards are among one of its most striking artists. From electric ...

"By examining thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms distributed across the genomes, we will be able to tell once and for all if Dixon's whiptail is a different species," said Corey Roelke, a ...

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

Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences subdivided the landscape. At some point, one climbed a post and became known ...

The supersized dinosaurs of the past may no longer roam our planet, but the age of truly colossal reptiles is far from over. In fact, many of the world’s largest lizards belong to the genus Varanus, a ...

Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

One of the world’s largest species of lizards, an ornate monitor, was found abandoned in an Alameda home last month, police ...

Three native Kansas species have officially left the ‘threatened’ category behind following a recent vote by wildlife ...

An extremely rare, possibly endangered lizard could be living in the Chinati Mountains of West Texas. Biologists from the ...