Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

Seeing a large monitor lizard inside or around your home can be frightening. These reptiles are strong, fast, and can grow several feet long depending on the species. In tropical and subtropical ...

Chennai: Customs sleuths at Chennai airport thwarted an attempt to smuggle in wildlife by arresting a passenger and seizing 31 exotic creatures from h.

Recent cold weather in Florida has caused invasive green iguanas to die and fall from trees as they decay. Iguanas, which are ...

Two of Sri Lanka’s rare lizards, the critically endangered Dumbara agama (Cophotis dumbara) and the endangered Ceylon deaf agama (Cophotis ceylanica) are popular on global trading websites as exotic ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a “lizard in a blizzard” has been rescued after a man discovered the large cold-blooded reptile buried in snow in Rhode Island, somehow surviving the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Providence man looking out the window after Sunday night’s snowstorm spotted an unexpected visitor just outside his home: an exotic lizard. The New England Wildlife Center ...

A Providence man rescued a three-foot tegu lizard he found in the snow after a major storm. The man warmed the cold-blooded reptile before contacting a local pet store for professional help.

Meet the world's first gene-edited reptiles: albino lizards roughly the size of your index finger. Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to make the lizards, providing a technique for gene editing outside of ...

A huge pet lizard was found left behind in a recently vacated home, Alameda police said. Related Articles After decades under private ownership, Safari West to become nonprofit ‘I don’t see any other ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...