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 ...

Forest patches in and around oil palm plantations are crucial for the survival of Asian water monitor lizards, a generalist species that usually thrives in human-impacted landscapes. A new study ...

Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2015—A German national has been arrested at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in possession of eight Earless Monitor Lizards concealed on his body as he attempted to ...

From the rainforests of Borneo to the Australian outback, Nick Baker explorers some of the remotest corners of the Earth every Wednesday at 9PM on Weird Creatures. On last week's premier episode of ...

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 ...

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