With Valentines Day right around the corner, those who study the animal kingdom are exploring one of the more interesting mating rituals they've come across: that of the Southern Alligator Lizard. "It ...

Like most reptiles, tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) were thought to be consistently ectothermic: They can’t sustain a body temperature that’s substantially higher than the ambient temperature. But ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA--An intricate three-way mating struggle first observed in a species of North American lizard has been discovered in a distant relative, the European common lizard. The two species are ...

A basking tegu lizard. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 22 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.J. Tattersall at National Institute of Science and ...

KENEDY, Texas — "We couldn't wait to get home, change our clothes and go play with the Horned Toads," says Lisa Yaklin. She grew up in Kenedy, Texas... now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of ...

Forty-three eastern collared lizards bred at the Little Rock Zoo have new homes in the Arkansas Ozarks thanks to an innovative collaboration among the zoo, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, ...

When it comes to the hazards of global warming, it may turn out that lizards in burrows are the canaries in the coal mine. In a study to be published Friday in the journal Science, an international ...