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 ...

What started as a simple wildlife sighting quickly turned into a tense close encounter with one of the desert’s most famous ...

Learn how an unlikely discovery in a venomous lizard led to one of today’s most influential drugs and why future ...

The largest lizards in the United States call Tucson, Ariz., home. Gila monsters can grow to about two feet long and weigh up ...

Buford the Gila monster at Caldwell Zoo plays a surprising role in medical research, with the venom contributing to diabetes and weight loss medications.

In a state that still hosts grisly “rattlesnake roundups,” human Texans should learn to see something of themselves in their ...

By studying how snakes process large meals and long food breaks, scientists identified an overlooked compound in humans that could expand weight loss therapies.

You probably know that male members of the deer family — white-tails, elk, and moose — invest a great deal of energy each year growing antlers for one purpose: supremacy that leads to breeding rights.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (TND) — A Colorado man died Friday after being bitten by one of his two pet gila monsters, in what might be the first case in nearly 100 years of the lizard's venom being fatal to ...

To distract myself from the daily doses of bad news — war and death, prices soaring, a moribund Congress, Wall Street’s twisted knickers — I am binge-watching “The Pitt.” This ...

Burger King just flipped the script ... posting a video of its leader going full savage on a Whopper ... and it sure smells like shade aimed straight at the McDonald’s CEO! In the clip, BK President ...

There are also new original films in development at the animation studio. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor Monsters, Inc., directed by now–Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter, debuted in 2001 and ...