One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, ...

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 ...

How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

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, ...

Hitting the desert trails often is a Southern Nevada spring hiker’s key to keeping company with lizards. After hiding for months from winter’s cooler temperatures, western zebra-tailed lizards have ...

The latest documentation of a new species of Pale Agama lizard (Trapelus agnetae) in the Northern Borders area indicates that Saudi Arabia has a healthy and stable desert ecosystem, as reported by the ...

For a moment, I thought I was looking into a mirror. An old and weathered face was staring at me. Snapping back to reality, I realized I was face to face with one of nature’s unique desert creatures, ...

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 ...