Scientists recently discovered a new species of worm lizard—a strange limb-less lizard that looks a bit like an oversized earthworm. The new species has been named Amphisbaena amethysta after ...

Snake lungworm disease, which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S.

It's known as a Bipes biporus or the five-toed worm lizard. Their little hands are perfect for burrowing underground. But, what exactly are they? They're a reptile native to the Baja California ...

An unexpected discovery that intrigues scientists and raises numerous questions. This lizard with a singular appearance resembles more a worm than a scaly animal. But its existence reveals unsuspected ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a new species of worm lizard, a peculiar limbless reptile resembling an oversized earthworm. Named Amphisbaena amethysta, the discovery hails from a ...

This nocturnal lizard’s coloration helps it blend into ... making the Gila Monster a unique spectacle in the reptile world.

But there’s a twist in the case of the genus Aspidoscelis, the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

If you see a slow worm (Anguis fragilis) in your garden, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a snake. But it's actually a legless lizard, the only such creature native to Britain. Slow worms are ...

The region's shinnery oaks are only four or five feet high, but they provide food, shade and a breeding ground for the small, brown dunes sagebrush lizard — otherwise known as the sand dune lizard.

They strike their prey with a venom-filled bite, before letting it crawl away and die, at which point the snake eats it. The Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica), is another large snake, but it doesn't get ...

Q. Why are there so many lizards this year? I’ve never seen so many before! It’s possible that you are seeing more lizards because their normal hiding places have been disturbed. For instance ...

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