Buford the Gila monster at Caldwell Zoo plays a surprising role in medical research, with the venom contributing to diabetes and weight loss medications.

It uses its climbing abilities to eat the eggs and young of other animals. And in this footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a lace monitor finds a nest full of opossum babies.

“There’s danger in this urban paradise.” Huge carnivorous lizards stalk this popular city park alongside humans The world’s second largest lizard has made this Indonesian park their home – alongside ...

Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

On October 5, 2025, in Chengdu, located in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, a video captured a rare two-headed bearded dragon at the busy Wangping Street night market. The reptile had two heads ...

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Florida is making moves to scale back some of its nonnative species, particularly iguanas, according to The Palm Beach Post. Since the 1960s, green iguanas have overrun the southern part of the state, ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina is home to three legless lizard species, often mistaken for snakes. Glass lizards differ from snakes with ear openings ...

North Carolina is home to three legless lizard species, often mistaken for snakes. Glass lizards differ from snakes with ear openings, eyelids and more rigid bodies. Glass lizards eat insects and ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. When you think of a lizard, you probably think of a scaly reptile with a tail and four visible limbs. The thing is, not all lizards ...