Lizard bone armor evolved at least 13 separate times over 320 million years, and monitor lizards even re-grew it after losing ...

Critically endangered monitor lizards which are rarely seen in the wild are now on public display for the first time at an Austrian zoo. These earless monitor lizards, which resemble miniature dragons ...

For 320 million years, a hidden story has been written in the skin of reptiles. Scientists have now decoded it, and what they ...

Beneath the scales of Australia’s iconic monitor lizards (commonly known as goannas), scientists have discovered an unexpected secret: a hidden layer of bony skin structures known as osteoderms.

In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the earless monitor lizard as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act today following a 2022 petition from the Center for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monitor lizards are often drawn to the water, where they search for food, cool off or find shelter. In places like Bangkok, these ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to finalize federal protections for blue tree monitor lizards. The protections would ban ...