Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

Once driven to the city's edges, Bangkok's giant monitor lizards are now thriving in parks and canals – and becoming an unexpected part of the visitor experience.

For more than fifty years, museum herpetologist George Zug has studied all manner of reptiles and amphibians Jack Tamisiea A slender-toed gecko in New Guinea. In 2020, Smithsonian herpetologist George ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Why it's awesome: Earless monitor lizards are dragon-like reptiles that are so rare they're dubbed the "Holy Grail" of herpetology — the study of reptiles and amphibians. The species is the only known ...

Studying climate change-induced mass extinctions in the deep geological past allows researchers to explore the impact of environmental crises on organismal evolution. One principal example is the ...

An accumulation of scientific research suggests that there’s a lot more to the social lives of lizards, snakes and related creatures. By Hannah Thomasy Ned and Sunny stretch out together on the warm ...

Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. The News & Observer spoke with local wildlife experts to learn about these reptiles — where they ...

From chasing geckos as a young boy in Kandy to studying crocodiles in Australia and much more, behavioural ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Dr. Ruchira ‘Ru’ Somaweera has always been ...

If you’re more of a reptile person but large snakes and lizards intimidate you, why not adopt a small lizard to keep you company? Palm-sized reptiles such as the leopard gecko and fire skink are only ...