Of course monitor lizards, as the dragon’s family of animals is known, have survived many cycles of change. This particular species split off maybe five million years ago, but its genus goes back some ...

This contraption’s sliding mechanism lets you trap an insect, an arachnid, or a small lizard from a distance. And it has a built-in magnifier, so you can get a closer look at your catch.

In a world so thoroughly reshaped by human hands, animals often bump into novel ecological conditions — problems evolution didn’t prepare them for. Plastic items look like food, but they’re ...

I was lucky enough to catch a pangolin known only as P21 rummaging ... Z and I pulled back the cloth on the covered jars. Floating lizards, bear arms, king cobra. And pangolin.

Reptile wranglers in Australia responded to a Queensland home to help out with an unusual problem -- a lizard on the roof.

They are carnivorous creatures that eat other insects, lizards, small birds and rodents ... not spin webs and prefer to live in warm habitats to burrow and create a trap door to catch their prey. They ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Scientists recently discovered a new species of worm lizard—a strange limb-less lizard that looks a bit like an oversized earthworm.

On an isolated island in the Federated States of Micronesia, community and invited scientists are attempting a world-first ...

Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus fly trap and the pitcher plant, consume insects. Pitcher plants catch their prey in ... a variety of frogs and small lizards, and herbivorous mammals, are ...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a…snake? Learn how this incredible species manipulates its long, tubular body to glide through the jungles of South and Southeast Asia.

I was lucky enough to catch a pangolin known only as P21 rummaging ... Z and I pulled back the cloth on the covered jars. Floating lizards, bear arms, king cobra. And pangolin.