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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday. Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus ...

Recently published in the scholarly journal Zootaxa, "A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae)" defines 17 new species, elevates 17 subspecies and ...

Doug’s heart pounded when he realized what was happening. Then instinct took over. Doug kept taking pictures, at a shutter speed of one eight-thousandth of a second, capturing an image that ...

Life restoration of the earliest lizard, Cryptovaranoides microlanius. Credit: Lavinia Gandolfi A 205-million-year-old fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, was confirmed as the oldest modern lizard, ...

The invasion of a lizard species that is the size of a dog has sparked concern as it wreaks havoc on ecosystems across the South. Central to experts' fears is the fact the roughly five-foot-long ...

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In their first show in Pittsburgh since the 1990s, The Jesus Lizard showed few signs of slowing down Monday night at Stage AE. The veteran rockers — don’t call them noise rock — are touring ...

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AUSTIN, Texas — If you’ve lived in Texas for a while, you may have run across a tiny lizard with an identity crisis. Most folks call them horned toads, but they are, indeed, horned lizards.

Meade said while not related, the new species probably looked a lot like horned lizards alive today. Though not related, the prehistoric species likely looked similar to the horned lizards of ...