The other day, I got an email message from a good friend of mine, Brigitte Berry, a rare native Virgin Islander who loves ...

These reptiles ... one of the largest in North America. With their powerful jaws and armored bodies, they are perfectly adapted to life in the swamp. Alligators play a crucial role in their ecosystem, ...

the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday. Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are native to Australia and one of the world’s largest lizards, dwarfed only by ...

LA Zoo Hatches First-Ever Perentie Lizards, One of Largest Lizard Species in the World LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to ...

Researchers in Tunisia found the largest “worm lizard” that has ... belongs to a new genus and species of amphisbaenians, a “charismatic group” of “legless lizards” that has ...

If you keep up with the news in herpetology (we're sure you already knew this, but herpetology is the study of reptiles and amphibians), you might learn, every so often, about the discovery of a new ...

a group of legless lizards) that didn’t appear to belong to any known species. To confirm that these specimens were indeed examples of a new species, they had to look at things a little closer ...

Some species of legless lizards are great pets ... a diet of insects in the arthropod group — like spiders. The largest of the glass snakes also eat snails and small mammals, like pink mice.