lizard

In 2016, amidst the white dunes of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, in West Texas, a herpetologist Drew Dittmer discovered lesser earless lizard (Holbroo...

Tens of millions of years ago, the thorny devil broke off from its closest relative, the tree-dwelling chameleon dragon of Australia's Top End, Dr Brennan ...

In the 2000s there was a revolution in taxonomic classification (due to new molecular techniques being refined more and more accurately). And the case of A...

University of Florida scientists are asking residents to report sightings of nonnative lizards in order to prevent invasive spread. UF wildlife specialists...

An endangered yakka skink is getting a helping hand deep in the heart of the mulga lands, just outside Charleville in south-west Queensland. Predator fe...

The San Antonio Zoo's Reptile House gained several new additions this year, including 11 psychedelic rock geckos bred by the zoo's Ectotherms Team, accordi...

The new lizard species, Proctoporus titans sp. nov., was found in the southern portion of the Otishi National Park in Peru by a team of four biologists. ...

An accumulation of scientific research suggests that there’s a lot more to the social lives of reptiles on the example of skinks. “There’s more socially...

An amateur herpetologist says many of the lizards in New Zealand are so new to science that they don’t even have names. “Historically, New Zealand has b...

Researchers with the National Museum of Natural History have discovered a relative to New Zealand’s tuatara that lived more than 150 million years ago. Opi...

Australian bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) providing important insights into vertebrate brain evolution, as revealed by the work of Max Planck scientists...

Different water evaporation intensivity between scaleless bearded dragons and normally scaled reptiles was discovered by scientists on the example of beard...

Charles Darwin was the last person to make a record of Land Iguanas on Santiago Island in 1835. Because of the time that passed and because iguanas are an ...

One of the two species new to science discovered around Machu Picchu (Peruvian Andes) was named after Optimus Prime from "Transformers" franchise. Scien...

First successful breeding of critically endangered Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti became a great result of this species ex situ saving program. The hatc...

The article in a very informative resource Reptiles Magazine provides recent revision to the taxonomy of the new species of Hydrosaurus (sailfin lizard) sp...

According to the University of Cyprus, the endemic lizard known as "kοurkoutas" corresponds to a distinct species (Laudakia cypriaca), found only there. ...