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

Names such as Gila monster and Komodo dragon, conjure up images of creatures more suited to realms of science fiction. Yet these mini-dinosaurs are very real, with many of the approximate 6,000 ...

The gender gap has hit the animal kingdom ...

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.

Meet the world's first gene-edited reptiles: albino lizards roughly the size of your index finger. Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to make the lizards, providing a technique for gene editing outside of ...

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 ...

Identifying snake and lizard eggs can be tricky. Experts look at size, shape, and color. Snake eggs are usually larger and ...

Scientists have genetically modified reptiles for the first time, to create tiny mutant albino lizards. The team used the CRISPR-Cas-9 technique to edit the DNA of the Anolis sagrei, or brown anole ...

The next time you see a snake in your garden, let out a scream. A scream of joy, that is. Finding lizards, toads, frogs, salamanders and snakes is a sign that your garden is providing a healthy ...