Understanding biodiversity within species is key to our understanding of why nature works the way it does, say researchers ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by scientists worldwide. Even so, each discovery of an animal previously unknown to ...

The northern alligator lizard is a small lizard found in the northwestern United States. They have a lot of similarities to their southern counterpart, but they tend to stay in the wooded areas of ...

More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs. More than 100 million years ...

For Cincinnatians, the sight of a small lizard scurrying across a sidewalk or hanging out on an alley wall isn’t surprising. For more than 70 years, European common wall lizards, known locally as ...

DNA analysis confirmed a newly discovered lizard species found in a forest in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam.

Researchers have identified only two of this slider skink species within a remote Australian wildlife sanctuary. The small size and speed of Lerista munuwajarlu render it nearly invisible to ...