A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on ...

To reduce their impacts on native species, feral cats have been added to New Zealand's list of animals targeted for ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

Coiled in self-defence, this armoured creature – the armadillo girdled lizard – turns its body into a formidable fortress to ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures ...

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life ...

An exciting new species of lizard, Diploderma bifluviale, has been discovered in the upper Dadu River valley of Sichuan, ...

The closest anyone in this city got to hunting was making movies and shows about people who hunted. Or dating. That’s the ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

The Dolphin Company wants to transfer nine sea lions and three seals to a traveling sea lion show, a new court filing reveals.

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The Yarrow's spiny lizard lives in a narrow band of the Mule Mountains, but its numbers are declining as temperatures warm ...