Researchers in the U.S. and Malaysia have discovered a new species of lizard while conducting field research in Borneo. Using DNA sequencing, the scientists confirmed their finding by analyzing the ...

Should zoos display legally protected species that have been smuggled out of their range countries? A new study suggests that a pause and rethink may be needed, as it reports that accredited zoos have ...

The far-ranging impacts of Borneo’s vast palm oil industry are well known, from the extinction of the orangutan to the destruction of the once pristine rainforest. Yet far less is understood about how ...

A previously unknown species of lizard was discovered in Borneo by Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at Louisiana State University’s Museum of Natural Science. The scientific name of the ...

Lanthonotus borneensis Steindachner—the Borneo earless monitor lizard (which forms, with two American lizards, the family Helodermatidae) is known from less than ten specimens, all from Sarawak (three ...

For the month of December, I’ll be posting some of my favorite pictures from 2012. All of these photos were taken during the course of my reporting travels. This is an agamid lizard in Danum Valley, ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Prague Zoo showcased five newly-born earless monitor lizards on Tuesday as part of a European breeding program aimed at boosting numbers of the nocturnal reptiles rarely ...