Encountering a lizard indoors can be startling, but these common house geckos are harmless, primarily feeding on insects. While they can bite if corne ...

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Goannas are Australian monitor lizards that wander into schools and urban spaces, drawn by food smells and warmth. There are over two dozen goanna species in mainland Australia, occupying diverse ...

While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This ...

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A unique lizard has been discovered with no forelimbs and only hindlimbs. It resembles a snake, with its small hindlimbs ...

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had ...

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What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.

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 ...

The findings of a new academic paper suggest that warming winters are causing damage to the DNA of some lizards.

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Mule Mountains population of the Yarrow’s spiny lizard under the Endangered ...