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

As a battle for territory unfolds between two different species of lizards invasive to Florida, a team of University of Florida scientists is trying to determine what it could mean for public health.

Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...

The new year brought the return of the Erie Reptile Show on Saturday. This monthly event lets people check out hundreds of ...

"By examining thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms distributed across the genomes, we will be able to tell once and for all if Dixon's whiptail is a different species," said Corey Roelke, a ...

Discovery of Bolg amondol, a name inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe, reveals the complex evolutionary history of giant Gila Monster relatives “I opened this jar of bones labeled ...