A Thai Facebook user recently stumbled upon an unusual creature in their home, sparking curiosity and confusion with its serpentine appearance yet oddly short legs. The user took to a social media ...

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A small lizard, tail thick at the base, a little longer than the head and body. Brown above and on the side. Each scale has a dark basal spot. In the young the spots are joined into 4 or 6 ...

In 2014, when I had just started exploring nature and wildlife, I was still mostly oblivious to the wonderful creatures around me. One such experience made me look at my concrete colony in a ...

A FEW weeks ago, I saw a story in this paper about Luzon monitor lizards (Varanus marmoratus), locally called "bayawak," being confiscated by personnel from the provincial office of the Department of ...

A first-time field study of reptiles and amphibians in Sri Lanka’s previously conflict-ridden Jaffna Peninsula has listed 18 previously unrecorded species. The new study includes observations from 10 ...

A new study suggests that stripes and colourful tails of some lizards may help them ward off predators The black and white stripes of a zebra may be attractive to us, but did you know they evolved so ...

Human cartilage is an avascular tissue with limited capacity for repair. By contrast, certain lizards are capable of musculoskeletal tissue regeneration following tail loss throughout all stages of ...

Researchers have described 5 species of lacertid lizards in the genus Ophisops in India’s tropical grasslands, but recent genetic research shows there may be at least 30 species. Tropical grasslands ...