For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Winter has long served as a season of stillness, a biological pause, for hibernating animals. When that pause disappears, the ...

Lizards have the amazing ability to regenerate their lost tails. So why might they regrow two? Read here to learn more!

This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, by a herpetologist.

A study appearing in Behavioral Ecology shows that in male wall lizards, certain behaviors have a greater influence on the way they resolve territorial disputes than their size and coloration. While ...

Bruno, a bearded dragon lizard, started out his new life on the wrong foot. Considering he's missing one of his hind feet, that's really saying something. Bruno was one of a pair of lizards-the other ...

One of the world's largest species of lizards, an ornate monitor, was found abandoned in an Alameda home last month, police ...

A large lizard initially reported as a Komodo dragon was rescued from an Alameda home after police and animal control ...

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 ...

After weeks on the loose, one cold-blooded escapee’s run from the law has come to an end. Boulder animal control officers this week finally captured an iguana that had been on the lam for about a ...