Scientists are realizing that turtles, lizards and crocodilians communicate vocally more than they once thought ...

Lizards live much longer in captivity than in the wild. How long do lizards live? We talk to an expert to find out. When you choose a lizard for a pet, you’re in it for the long haul. How long do ...

For more than fifty years, museum herpetologist George Zug has studied all manner of reptiles and amphibians Jack Tamisiea A slender-toed gecko in New Guinea. In 2020, Smithsonian herpetologist George ...

World Lizard Day, held every year on August 14th, encourages to enjoy the interesting diversity of lizards and the importance they hold in ecological systems. Be it bright geckos or ghostly desert ...

South Florida is literally crawling with lizards. They're skittering through parks and yards, scampering into homes and ...

Did you know that there are more than 7,000 lizard species in the world that live on all continents of the Earth except Antarctica? The amazing thing about these reptiles is that they do not have ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The crested gecko's current popularity in the pet trade ...

On May 30, 2008, a research team armed with GPS units, notebooks, and binoculars set out into a dense patch of jungle in Indonesian Borneo. An oil palm company had commissioned them to survey the area ...