AFICIONADOS OF “Dune”, Frank Herbert’s novel about a planet covered by Sahara-like desert, will be familiar with the idea of animals that swim through sand. Giant worms which do just that are a ...

A video shared to TikTok authentically showed a marine iguana found only in the Galápagos Islands. There are five species of lizard associated with states bordering Lake Superior, none of which ...

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

When the tiny lizard known as the sandfish moves through sand, it literally dives under the surface of the ground as if swimming. Now physicists have figured out how they do it – and want to build ...

One of the many introduced lizard species in Florida might be increasing transmissions of mosquito-borne illnesses to humans, according to a University of Florida research team. The Peter's rock agama ...

A lizard that lives next to streams in the mountains of Costa Rica appears to have evolved a kind of scuba tank to help it stay underwater for long periods. It can remain submerged for at least 16 ...