During the 1990s, Cuban brown anoles were released on various artificial islands near Florida. Within just three months, ...

African Nile monitor lizards, introduced to Florida through the pet trade, have established a wild population in Cape Coral, ...

Nile Monitor lizards have emerged as an invasive threat in Florida's Cape Coral area. Their presence endangers local wildlife ...

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Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around the globe as temperatures rise and habitats change. The word "adaptation" is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has ...

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Global change is also affecting the behavior and mobility of the ocellated lizard, a reptile typical of Mediterranean ...

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 ...

The scientists were eating from at restaurant in Vietnam, when their curiosities were sparked as they wondered why all the lizards appeared to be female. The lizard species they found has now been ...

A lizard tail trapped in amber reveals that these reptiles were using the same evasion tactic-lose the tail, regrow it ...