While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This ...

The Nile monitor lizard is considered an invasive species in Florida. The Nile monitor is a lizard that is non-native to Florida. The monitor's was originally brought to Florida as a pet before it was ...

The western fence lizard seems like a pretty regular lizard, until you find out that its blood can cure Lyme disease in ticks ...

Virgin births sound like science fiction, but many species rely on them when conditions become extreme. Researchers have ...

Don Pedro Island State Park floats like a mirage off Florida’s Gulf Coast – a stress-dissolving paradise that somehow remains underappreciated while visitors flock to the state’s more commercialized ...

While the Grand Canyon may be Arizona’s best-known national park, it’s not the only one worth a visit. With 22 National Park ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas offers lots of great spots for outdoor recreation, including this trail that hiking ...

Sabino Canyon is a place of colorful cliffs, colossal cacti, lush streamside scenery and, you might have noticed, lizards - lots and lots of lizards. To highlight that reptilian resource, managers of ...

The tiny Bywater Museum of Unnatural History is a trove of imaginative art oddities, but it’s not in the Bywater ...

Go canoeing, hiking, wildlife spotting, birdwatching and discovering historical ghost towns in these state parks in Nevada.