A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, the U.S.’ busiest fossil fuel region. The dunes sagebrush lizard ...

It’s all about lizards. At least that is what I told an audience at the March meeting of the Palm Springs Chapter of the Great Outdoors. For the first time in my career, I had been requested to ...

New findings are showing that as our planet warms, desert lizards face a real energy crisis. According to an article from Phys.org, these cold-blooded creatures depend on the warmth of the sun and the ...

The Chuckwalla is a stocky, flattened lizard native to the arid regions of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It has a habit of expelling salt when it sneezes, according to a zookeeper at the ...

Southern Africa's deserts are home to the peculiar barking gecko, a small reptile known for its surprisingly loud ...

The flat-tail horned lizard's desert habitats in the American West are changing rapidly, thanks to us humans. Andrew Gottscho For many plants and animals, the Sonoran Desert would be an inhospitable ...

It’s early morning in the Australian desert, and a squat, palm-sized lizard called the thorny devil is having a drink. It hasn’t rained for weeks, and there’s no water in sight. The lizard’s body is ...

If you are, it’s because there are more lizards now than at any other time of year. By August the eggs laid by female lizards have hatched. Tiny, near replicas of adult lizards are scampering all over ...

Desert lizards may be able to teach us a thing or two about digging into loose sandy environments, such as at the beach or in the desert. Image Credit: TCB/Pixabay Researchers from the University of ...

We desert dwellers enjoy a huge diversity of native reptiles, especially in our open spaces, with an intriguing array of lizards present during the warm seasons. Some of them move lightning-fast, ...