A large South American lizard is causing concern to wildlife officials in the state of Georgia. The Argentine black and white ...

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Paul Allen used to capture snakes for his family's serpent exhibit in Michigan, Snakes Alive. His father died from a cobra bite.

The Argentine black-and-white tegu in Georgia has shifted from a handful of verified encounters to a coordinated containment effort involving state agencies, university researchers, and federal ...

Australian authorities have confiscated more than 100,000 illegal cockroaches from a breeder west of Sydney in what officials are calling the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.

When a lizard is doing push-ups, it's communicating. Those rapid little body lifts are a form of territorial display or ...

When researchers played underwater recordings of pushy males, females that were capable of becoming pregnant swam away from ...

A mystery lizard hints at progress for the San Antonio Zoo’s “lizard factory,” where researchers rebuild the Texas horned lizard population.

Invasive tegu lizards are spreading across Florida. Officials warn residents not to capture these five-foot reptiles.

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A long-standing battle between the oil-and-gas industry and environmentalists in West Texas just got more serious. The federal government moved last week to strip the dunes sagebrush lizard, a Permian ...