Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Hanging around our parks (or your house) may be a few lizards; here in Indiana, we are home to at least six. We have the six-lined racerunner, five-lined skink, broadhead skink, ...

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in semideserts in East Africa. An Instagram post from venueearth features this ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of lizard in a strange place. The brightly colored, water-loving lizards live in the Andes Mountains in southern Peru — an odd place to find them, scientists ...

Chameleons are known for being able to change their skin color, but they’ve got plenty of other special tricks as well. They can shoot out their tongues at alarming speeds, use their tails as extra ...

Magalia >> Jeff Scott can’t recall every animal that he’s cared for, but with pythons, caimans and even rattlesnakes on the list, it is surely more diverse than the average person. These days, he ...

The rainbow-splashed tails of lizards fade with age, a costume change that is a consequence of different feeding behaviors in juveniles versus adults, new research suggests. Juvenile lizards actively ...

As a herpetologist (someone who studies reptiles and amphibians), I am often in the field making observations well beyond an hour that normal people consider to be acceptable. And it is during these ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of lizard in a strange place. The brightly colored, water-loving lizards live in the Andes Mountains in southern Peru — an odd place to find them, scientists ...