Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their limbless cousins. A family of lizards known as varanids has evolved ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, ...

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 ...

King Cobra vs Komodo Dragon: In the world of reptiles, two prominent creatures stand out: the Komodo Dragon and the Monitor ...

8/2/25 UPDATE: The water monitor has been safely captured, officials said Saturday. A massive lizard that recently escaped from an area home was spotted this week in a southern Massachusetts town.

Goose, a five-foot-long water monitor lizard that escaped his home weeks ago and was recently spotted in Connecticut, has returned to the Bay State, Massachusetts Environmental Police said after they ...

Renee Aland had to do a double take when she spotted a 5-foot lizard along the side of the road. It wasn't an alligator, at least not with that long of a tongue. Aland spotted the monitor lizard, ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Reptile wranglers in Australia responded to a Queensland home to help out with an unusual problem -- a lizard on the roof. Stuart McKenzie, owner of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, ...