Understanding biodiversity within species is key to our understanding of why nature works the way it does, say researchers ...

Niabi Zoo has welcomed the birth of more offspring with the announcement that four Smallwood’s anole lizards have hatched. The lizards are native to the coastal forest of eastern Cuba and spend most ...

Every year on Aug. 14, the world recognizes a specific type of reptile with a celebration of World Lizard Day. With more than 6,000 different species of lizards on our planet, there’s a good reason to ...

The Huallaga River in the Andes of central Peru extends for 1,138 km, making it the largest tributary of the Marañón River, the spinal cord of the Amazon River. This basin harbours a great variety of ...

Lizards, with their extraordinary variations, have helped transform what ecologists thought possible in a single species. Boasting more than 7,000 different types, the reptiles are found around the ...

Enyalioides feiruzae is a colourful, highly variable new species of lizard discovered in the upper basin of the Huallaga River in central Peru. The authors, having searched for amphibians and reptiles ...