While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This ...

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.

Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects' more obscure targets—and how even a tiny, ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

So far, the CRISPR gene-editing system has been successfully used in bacteria, plants, mice, pigs, monkeys, and even humans – but never reptiles, due to their tricky reproductive methods. Now, ...

Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

Funding was provided in part by the National Science Foundation. Tracy Langkilde receives funding from The Pennsylvania State University. An eastern fence lizard basking in the sun feels a small red ...

A series of clever experiments into the reptilian "third eye" has confirmed that lizards use this patch of light-sensitive cells as a sun-calibrated compass. To test how third eyes — technically known ...

Lizards are a type of reptile. There are more than 6,000 species of lizard across the world. They can vary in size, from a few centimeters to as long as several meters. People in many parts of the ...