For ages, wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival. Now, a powerful ...

One animal in Australia is so difficult to spot it has been named the hidden dragon lizard. The reptile, which blends perfectly into the reddish orange terrain, avoided documented sightings for years.

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 ...

After millions of years of evolutionary isolation, Madagascar developed an unparalleled array of wildlife, and recent research has uncovered an unsung ecological hero: the lizard. Though often ...

What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as “lost species”. We do not know if they’ve gone extinct, or if it’s simply that nobody has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of a lizard, you probably think of a scaly reptile with a tail and four visible limbs. The thing is, not all ...

As a battle for territory unfolds between two different species of lizards invasive to Florida, a team of University of Florida scientists is trying to determine what it could mean for public health.

Researchers have described a new-to-science species of skink that may be one of Australia’s most threatened reptiles. The ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...

March's record heat made it the most abnormally warm month in recorded U.S. history, bringing plants into bloom early and ...

Humans for ages believed that wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival.