It’s all about lizards. At least that is what I told an audience at the March meeting of the Palm Springs Chapter of the Great Outdoors. For the first time in my career, I had been requested to ...

A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, the U.S.’ busiest fossil fuel region. The dunes sagebrush lizard ...

The Chuckwalla is a stocky, flattened lizard native to the arid regions of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It has a habit of expelling salt when it sneezes, according to a zookeeper at the ...

We desert dwellers enjoy a huge diversity of native reptiles, especially in our open spaces, with an intriguing array of lizards present during the warm seasons. Some of them move lightning-fast, ...

If you are, it’s because there are more lizards now than at any other time of year. By August the eggs laid by female lizards have hatched. Tiny, near replicas of adult lizards are scampering all over ...

Desert lizards, like chuckwallas, face harsh conditions with salty food and little water. To combat this, they've evolved a unique adaptation: sneezing salt. Specialized nasal glands filter excess ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife says flat-tailed horned lizards may warrant protection under the ...

It’s early morning in the Australian desert, and a squat, palm-sized lizard called the thorny devil is having a drink. It hasn’t rained for weeks, and there’s no water in sight. The lizard’s body is ...