Experts later said the reptile was likely an Asian water monitor — the second-largest lizard species in the world after the ...

One animal in Australia is so difficult to spot it has been named the hidden dragon lizard. The reptile, which blends perfectly into the reddish orange terrain, avoided documented sightings for years.

As the world’s largest living lizards, Komodo dragons are some of the most fascinating and intimidating reptiles on Earth. In ...

What do lizards do? From walking on water to even "flying," these cool creatures are capable of some pretty amazing feats.

If you have a fear of snakes, you’re not alone. Studies show ophidiophobia is one of the most common of all animal phobias, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. “During our multi-year fieldwork in the Northern Highlands ...

A research team from the National Taiwan Normal University has clarified the status of a secretive reptile. Led by Si-Min Lin, the team focused on the Formosan legless lizard, scientifically known as ...

Grace Manthey is the senior visual data journalist and data team coordinator for CBS News and Stations. She is an Emmy-winning journalist and visual storyteller with a passion for telling stories that ...

Australia does not simply have a large number of lizards. In many regions, they dominate the landscape almost quietly, moving ...

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is once again being saluted in the scientific community, with a new lizard species being named after the musician. Per ReptilesMagazine.com, researchers in Peru ...

ODESSA — The dunes sagebrush lizard burrows its coarse, spiny body as a way to cool down, and sometimes conserve heat, deep beneath the sand dunes in the Mescalero-Monahans ecosystem 30 miles west of ...