Green anacondas can grow to almost 9m in length and weigh more than 250kg – that's about the weight of a male grizzly bear.

The sanctuary covers nearly 4 sq km of the Lower Karnali that falls within the two municipalities, and is ecologically ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible. By Carl Zimmer If you live in the ...

Like many residents of warm climates, the brown lizards scurrying around New Orleans have a worse temper in extreme heat. According to a new study from Tulane researchers, these invasive brown anoles ...

What do Nile monitor lizards look like? Nile monitors are olive green to black in color and have cream-colored or yellow stripes on the jaw and head. They have rows of yellowish, V-shaped stripes ...

Imagine a creature that looks like it stepped straight out of the pages of a fantasy novel or a prehistoric era. The sailfin dragon, a bizarre and almost mythical-looking reptile, is alive and ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian ('fish-lizard') Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (top left). The marine ...

Artistic reconstruction of the filter-feeding pterosaur in the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation environment. The spinosaurid in the background represents the putative predator that produced the ...

The lizard is surrounded. She darts beneath a spiky shrub, a towering figure in a wide-brimmed hat looming over her. Corey Roelke shouts for someone to put down another glue trap. Edita Folfas swiftly ...

Christopher K. Woolley receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment's Endeavour Fund. He is affiliated with the Society for Research of Amphibians and Reptiles. Jono ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like ...