Hitting the desert trails often is a Southern Nevada spring hiker’s key to keeping company with lizards. After hiding for months from winter’s cooler temperatures, western zebra-tailed lizards have ...

Everyone loves a “horny toad!” Finding one practically beneath your feet on a trail feels very special; and the way that they don’t (can’t!) zip away in a flash makes it easy to study them for as long ...

AQUARIUM IS SHOWING OFF TWO MORE NEW BABIES. THIS NEW ONE IS CERTAINLY DISTINCTIVE. TAKE A LOOK. THESE ARE NEWLY HATCHED MEXICAN GIANT HORNED LIZARDS PERCHED ATOP MAMMAL LIZARD, WE THINK THE ZOO IS ...

I nearly crushed it beneath my boot. A little over a week ago, I was hiking down the Bogert Trail when something very tiny scampered out from underneath my boot — just in time to avoid being squashed.

How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

When my grandson Parker was 11 years old, he called me from a coastal island with exciting news. Problem was I took the call outside a restaurant with people jabbering and at a spot where I had a ...

San Antonio Zoo raises Texas horned lizards in an effort to restore them to the landscape. The San Antonio Zoo raises Texas horned lizards in a bold effort to restore them to the landscape. See how a ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

Desert habitats are some of the harshest places on Earth: little water, scorching heat, and food sources loaded with salt make survival a constant battle. For chuckwallas and other desert lizards, ...