New York has added the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, eastern fence lizard and eastern tiger salamander to its protected threatened and endangered species lists. The state’s Department of Environmental ...

A Texas representative wants to remove a rare lizard from the endangered species list, which would pave the way for oil and ...

George Rau Jr. brought 10 Wall Lizards from Lake Garda, Italy, to Cincinnati in 1951, and now the species has evolved and ...

Like all nonnative reptile species, green iguanas aren't protected in Florida except by anti-cruelty law and can be humanely ...

New study ranks Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas in top 10 for wildlife watching.

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

It turned out to be a new species. Researchers visited the “expansive and poorly surveyed” Gulf Plains Bioregion in northern Queensland in 2018 and 2023 to look for reptiles, according to a ...

Florida has a variety of invasive lizard species, including iguanas, tegus, Nile monitors, agamas, and basilisks. Many of these lizards were introduced through the pet trade and have established ...