CINCINNATI — A female armadillo banded lizard gave birth to a healthy baby at the Cincinnati Zoo recently, but that almost wasn’t the case. Five of the rare lizards were discovered in November 2019 by ...

Over the years I have often been called to remove “baby Gila Monsters” from garages, patios and gardens of residents only to find a Banded Gecko. This soft, delicate and fragile 4-6 inch lizard hardly ...

When western banded geckos are hungry, they pounce on crickets, beetles, or other small arthropods in their environment, and quickly gobble them up. But when they catch scorpions, they begin to shake ...

As night fell across eastern Thailand, a banded creature emerged from its hiding spot and used its “long” limbs to climb up a cave wall. Its “reddish brown” eyes scanned the surroundings, but it ...

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 ...

As a herpetologist (someone who studies reptiles and amphibians), I am often in the field making observations well beyond an hour that normal people consider to be acceptable. And it is during these ...

As a herpetologist (someone who studies reptiles and amphibians), I am often in the field making observations well beyond an hour that normal people consider to be acceptable. And it is during these ...