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 ...

Some animal adaptations look like they were designed by a committee of mad scientists. The greater short-horned lizard ...

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 ...

Desert habitats are some of the harshest places on Earth: little water, scorching heat, and food sources loaded with salt make survival a constant battle. For chuckwallas and other desert lizards, ...

Desert lizards are facing a ‘cost-of-living’ squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature, which ...

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 and a prehistoric-looking face. Meet the Gila monster. Hidden in its venom ...

Despite its intimidating name, Moloch horridus—better known as the thorny devil—is actually a small desert lizard found in Australia. It’s one of Australia’s most striking-looking reptiles. As seen in ...

"Sounds Wild" is an occasional series of short stories that take you to remote parts of the planet to hear the sounds of rare animals. Wildlife recordist David Stewart introduces the "goanna" lizard, ...