As a herpetologist (someone who studies reptiles and amphibians), I am often in the field making observations well beyond an hour that normal people consider to be acceptable. And it is during these ...

Guillem Casbas has a favorite spot to eat lunch on the Spanish island of Ibiza: a stone bench shadowed by an olive tree on a cliff overlooking the sea, with the neighboring island Formentera visible ...

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in semideserts in East Africa. An Instagram post from venueearth features this ...

Continuing along the track of a previous article, let me introduce you to another interesting lizard occurring in our area! After discussing the horned lizard in a prior article, and to give equal ...

When the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in 1889, he did so while staring out a window from his mental asylum room in the French town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. More than a ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of lizard in a strange place. The brightly colored, water-loving lizards live in the Andes Mountains in southern Peru — an odd place to find them, scientists ...

The ornate uromastyx lizard is so beautifully decorated that at first glance, you may mistake one for an elaborate ceramic figure. These desert-adapted creatures are the most colorful lizards in their ...