You know your pet is fully relaxed when they’re doing a sploot. Like a split but for the whole body, a sploot occurs when a dog or cat stretches so their bellies are flat on the ground and their ...

The short-horned lizard is often referred to as a “horned toad” or “horny toad” because its squat, flattened shape and short, blunt snout give it a toad-ish look. There are over a dozen ...

But there’s a twist in the case of the genus Aspidoscelis, the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

The region is “biodiversity rich but poorly studied.” During the nighttime surveys, researchers found a pair of sleeping lizards on tree branches, the study said. They took a closer look at ...

The region's shinnery oaks are only four or five feet high, but they provide food, shade and a breeding ground for the small, brown dunes sagebrush lizard — otherwise known as the sand dune lizard.

One of the cutest things they do is the dog sploot, and we’ll get into more about what that is in a minute. Seeing your dog in this unnatural position is so adorable—and yet kind of strange ...

Komodo dragons have sharp, curved teeth that can tear flesh. They also have a venom gland in their lower jaw that prevents blood from clotting ...

Hundreds of lizards the size of dogs are causing chaos in South Carolina. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) have issued a fresh warning about Argentine Black and White ...

Their skin must stay moist to absorb oxygen and therefore lacks scales. Reptiles are turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators and crocodiles. Unlike amphibians, reptiles breathe only through their lungs ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter, a young Komodo dragon named Onyx. Reptile keepers have been working with these lizards for decades, including ...

This morning will see bright skies but sunshine might be hazy in places as locally mist and fog could be slow to clear. The afternoon will remain sunny with a few patches of cloud lingering ...