Meet Rah! He’s a Nile monitor lizard at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo in Monroe. Zookeeper Garrett Cole says they are found along the Nile River and most of Africa. He says they are Africa’s ...

The striped monitor lizard, one of Southeast Asia's most formidable predators, is a true force to be reckoned with. With an imposing body length of up to 2.5 meters and a weight of over 20 kg, this ...

As temperatures soar, several animals employ a survival tactic known as aestivation, or summer hibernation. Land snails, ...

Rangers from the Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California, have located a black-and-white Argentine tegu "safe and sound" after a five-day search.

In the desert of Saudi Arabia, a “cryptic” creature with a “window” in its eyelid climbed along a pile of rocks. Its ...

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

The types of animals we know today have several similarities with those that lived on Earth millions of years ago, but also important differences. Right now, it would be almost imp ...

Scientists discovered that a certain lizard has a strange structure in their inner ear that allows the animal to sense lower vibrations than previously thought.

A monitor lizard, or Varanus salvator, joins the bird in front of the lens, blundering into the clearing as the bird once again shoots up its feathers and charges the lizard before darting off, the ...