Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

The Yarrow's spiny lizard lives in a narrow band of the Mule Mountains, but its numbers are declining as temperatures warm ...

November’s position toward the end of the calendar year and the end of autumn ignites a much deeper thinking about yesterday ...

A: A lizard can be a very fun first pet for a child, but they certainly require specialized care.

Five California tribes have established an intertribal commission to co-manage Chuckwalla National Monument, marking a ...

John William Lowery will be celebrating his love for the desert on Saturday, Nov. 29, at Pappy and Harriet’s, when he ...

Military Order of the Serpent. When reading that rather chilling name, I figured it had to be a band of magic-sparkled villains from the “Librarians” TV series or maybe a group of super-secret bad ...

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...

SALT LAKE CITY (WKRC) - A new species of dinosaur was discovered in an unlikely place - not beneath layers of dirt in a desert, but inside a glass jar in a museum. According to an account from Hank ...

A Colorado man has died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster in what would be a rare death by one of the desert lizards if the creature’s venom turns out to have been the cause. Christopher Ward ...

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