Rare stretches of freezing temperatures in Florida are causing the state's invasive cold-blooded iguanas to shut down due to ...

A South Florida iguana expert collected immobile reptiles by the handful Sunday morning as a cold snap moved into the area ...

Residents across Florida have been seeing an unexpected and strange side effect of a recent cold snap; iguanas literally ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Reptiles are among the most adaptable species on earth, and they can be found in deserts, forests, swamps, and even cities. Snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles have succeeded in making their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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