As a herpetologist (someone who studies reptiles and amphibians), I am often in the field making observations well beyond an hour that normal people consider to be acceptable. And it is during these ...

Whenever I think about habitats where I might find lizards, the first places where I would begin my search would be on the ground and underneath rocks, leaf litter, and/or other surface debris.

Many adults that spent much time outdoors as kids have fond memories of the backyard wildlife that they would come in contact with. Before the electronic entertainment age in which we now live, many a ...

Spring is a Texas spiny lizard’s nesting time. H.M. Smith’s “Handbook of Lizards” describes Sceloporus olivaceus as a rusty, arboreal, diurnal, insectivorous iguanid.” In scientific terminology, he ...

"They're not there," he said. "It seems like the species is now extinct." Yarrow's spiny lizards may be extinct in the Mule Mountains of Arizona after living there for 3 million years. / Credit: ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to safeguard the Mule Mountains population of the Yarrow’s spiny lizard under the ...

A genetically distinct population of Yarrow's spiny lizard in Arizona's Mule Mountains is facing local extinction due to climate change. Conservationists have petitioned to list the lizard as a ...

Once again, in the contest of being seen or remaining invisible, the desert spiny-lizard won. I searched but did not find it; the frustration is indescribable. After 27 years prowling around Colorado ...

Egyptian uromastyx, also called Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard, Egyptian mastigure, or Dhub, is a kind of lizard with many names. Its scientific name is Uromastyx aegyptia. It’s mostly found in the ...