Scientists have shown that losing a leg is not a catastrophe for lizards! Many so-called pirate lizards are thriving.

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in ...

We see lizards almost every day– on walls, near lights, or hiding in corners. Most of the time, we don’t even pay attention ...

A green talking gecko is a famous animal featured in TV ads but another member of the lizard species is not as visible, and ...

New lizard species in Vietnam, Acanthosaura grismeri, has unique dorsal spines and DNA revealing hidden biodiversity.

Many lizards have the ability to leave their tails behind when they feel that they’re in life-threatening danger. If you’ve ever grabbed a gecko by the tail because it got into your house somehow, and ...

"There is no pharmacy, no medicines, none of that,” say traditional Andean healers who have sacrificed the jararanko for medicinal use for generations. But scientists say it could do more harm than ...

Little is known about Paleozoic creatures’ parental prowess. But a newly uncovered 300-million-year-old fossil might be the earliest evidence of a parent, well, acting like a parent. Researchers from ...

A burned lunch at Audubon Zoo in New Orleans did more than just disappoint a hungry staffer. As soon as a smoke plume from ...

IN the beginning, there was Bluto. For 23 years, John Belushi’s character in 1978’s “National Lampoon’s Animal House” was the ultimate drunkenfratboy film icon. Then, in 2001, came Farva, the pudgy, ...

Pictured is a 3-foot-long savannah monitor lizard that was found on Monday at the Bay Street law office of Tupper, Grimsley and Dean in Beaufort. The lizard is at the Beaufort County Animal Shelter ...