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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the strange, small reptiles living within the giant deserts of Southern Africa is the barking gecko. It is unusual and strange to find a small gecko that barks very loudly and scares the wits ...

In the deserts of southern Africa, something unusual calls out. It is not a fox, not a dog, but a barking gecko. These small lizards can make loud, bark-like sounds, startling anyone nearby.

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 ...

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 ...