Some recent restaurant inspections throughout Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg uncovered a dead lizard, dead rodents, ...

STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A resident in south Stafford was in ... When the deputy arrived, she found that the homeowner had already captured the guest, a tegu lizard. Tegus are found in ...

Over 100 invasive lizards the size of dogs have been reported throughout South Carolina and are destroying the local ecosystem, including killing endangered species. The Argentine black and white ...

An iguana found on the streets of Richmond is now up for adoption after being taken in by Richmond Animal Care and Control.

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 ...

The new store has shipped more than 16,000 tarantulas around the United States in the first half of the year alone, said ...

Scuba-Diving' Lizards Use Bubble to Breathe Underwater and Avoid Predators Sep. 17, 2024 — A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater and ...

Prior to this, evidence for venom use in reptiles from the Late Triassic was limited to isolated teeth from the genus Uatchitodon. Helen Burch, the study's lead author and PhD student at Virginia ...

The venomous reptile Microzemiotes sonselaensis was discovered in Arizona's Late Triassic, shedding light on reptile venom evolution and ancient ecosystems. A newly discovered species of small, ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids ...

Helen Burch, the study's lead author and Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, notes that this discovery adds to the growing body of evidence for venom use among Mesozoic reptiles. "We know very little ...