The oldest known lizard has reclaimed its crown clade ... This involves figuring out where a species belongs in the evolutionary tree, based on the traits it shares with related organisms.

According to one app for nature observers, it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why?

Two Lizards Fight for the Right to Claim a Tree as their Home For thousands of years, the green anole was Florida's only native tree dwelling lizard. But today, Miami is home to nine other species ...

The green basilisk lizard is also called a plumed or double ... When threatened, they can drop from a tree into the water and sprint, upright, about 5 feet per second across the surface.

Marmoretta is a stem lepidosaur, an early relative of the group containing all lizards and snakes as well ... as the curves help them to grip to a tree's trunk and branches. Its spine would ...

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet ...

While encounters with venomous lizards are rare, they often occur when humans step into wild territories—either for research, tourism, or exotic pet keeping. These creatures don’t attack unprovoked; ...

"The ancient DNA sequence placed these species in the tree of life when other methods ... They found that more than half (54%) of the Caribbean forest lizard species they discovered are threatened ...

The blue tree monitor lizard only exists in the wild on Batanta Island in Indonesia, where its population has been devastated by collection for the pet trade and habitat loss. The biggest driver of ...

In Isukuti making, he uses the monitor lizard's skin which he gets from hunting with his dogs and spear. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Boaz Otenyo Shimoli stoically stretches his lean body to pull a ...

Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences subdivided the landscape. At some point, one climbed a post and became ...