Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

If you see a large, intimidating gray and yellow lizard, it’s probably a Nile monitor. They eat anything from bugs to iguanas ...

With April kicking off breeding season for many Florida critters, these colorful lizards are likely to become much more ...

Like all nonnative reptile species, green iguanas aren't protected in Florida except by anti-cruelty law and can be humanely ...

some species of reptiles have high value in the pet trade, leading to harvesting of wild individuals. Some species of South African tortoises, chameleons, girdled lizards and small-body vipers are ...

"They are the largest lizard species in Africa and can attain lengths of about 6-and-a-half feet and weigh up to (nearly 18) pounds, although a typical adult averages 5 feet in length and weighs ...

Africa has several different types of habitats from jungles and forests to grasslands and deserts. The second-largest ...