Despite its intimidating name, Moloch horridus—better known as the thorny devil—is actually a small desert lizard found in ...

One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

New findings are showing that as our planet warms, desert lizards face a real energy crisis. According to an article from Phys.org, these cold-blooded creatures depend on the warmth of the sun and the ...

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 ...

"Sounds Wild" is an occasional series of short stories that take you to remote parts of the planet to hear the sounds of rare animals. Wildlife recordist David Stewart introduces the "goanna" lizard, ...

Desert lizards are facing a ‘cost-of-living’ squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature, which ...

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 ...

I nearly crushed it beneath my boot. A little over a week ago, I was hiking down the Bogert Trail when something very tiny scampered out from underneath my boot — just in time to avoid being squashed.