The Komodo dragon, a venomous giant lizard native to Indonesian islands, faces endangerment with fewer than 6,000 remaining. Known for its deadly bite and unique parthenogenesis reproduction, this ...

Hikers at Joseph D. Grant County Park, just outside of San Jose, saw an Argentine black and white tegu last week—and rangers ...

Additional State Wildlife Grant projects have helped to establish captive breeding programs in coordination with the Little Rock Zoo to reestablish these charismatic reptiles in newly recovered sites.

Fascinated with the idea of creating distinctive colour combinations, called morphs, he started raising the lizards on his own. “Breeding and collecting geckos is like Pokemon for adults,” Mr ...

such as giant girdled lizards, are captive-bred to bypass trade restrictions. Legal loopholes at both the national and international levels allow non-CITES-listed species to be traded with little ...

said the lizards showed up in 1981 and established wild breeding populations by the 1990s. There’s a separate population in Cape Coral, west of Fort Myers, he said, which for some reason is ...

St. Lucie County is home to an emerging and breeding population of invasive tegu lizards, but also home to one of the state's most skilled trappers. A staggering 1,533 Argentine black and white ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos — delicious Latin American pastries — fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work.

These earless monitor lizards, which resemble miniature dragons, were previously kept behind the scenes in the zoo's rainforest house, where they were successfully bred. They are characterised by ...

"We like to call it a 'Lizard factory,'" says Andy Gluesenkamp, the Director for Conservation and Research at San Antonio Zoo. The zoo is operating a program to capture, breed, then raise and ...

Authorities seize dogs, lizards from Jersey City home described as an illegal breeding facility Authorities seized at least a dozen animals, including a large Colombian boa constrictor and a ...