A recently vacated Alameda rental came with a jaw-dropping surprise: a large lizard, roughly seven feet long, left behind ...

Police say a 5-foot-long water monitor lizard escaped from a home in Webster, Massachusetts on Friday. Now they're looking for it and so is the entire neighborhood. It isn't your typical neighborhood ...

On a warm spring morning a few years ago, I ducked into a rock shelter on Austin’s Barton Creek Greenbelt while taking a walk. Sunlight cut through the live oaks and painted the walls of the limestone ...

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Taking high-resolution photographs of lizard feet to measure the size of adhesive sub-digital toepads. Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology Long-term lizard study ...

The lizard is surrounded. She darts beneath a spiky shrub, a towering figure in a wide-brimmed hat looming over her. Corey Roelke shouts for someone to put down another glue trap. Edita Folfas swiftly ...