A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, the U.S.’ busiest fossil fuel region. The dunes sagebrush lizard ...

The flat-tail horned lizard's desert habitats in the American West are changing rapidly, thanks to us humans. Andrew Gottscho For many plants and animals, the Sonoran Desert would be an inhospitable ...

New findings are showing that as our planet warms, desert lizards face a real energy crisis. According to an article from Phys.org, these cold-blooded creatures depend on the warmth of the sun and the ...

It’s all about lizards. At least that is what I told an audience at the March meeting of the Palm Springs Chapter of the Great Outdoors. For the first time in my career, I had been requested to ...

Southern Africa's deserts are home to the peculiar barking gecko, a small reptile known for its surprisingly loud ...

1. For ectotherms such as lizards, the importance of behavioural thermoregulation in avoiding thermal extremes is well-established and is increasingly acknowledged in modern studies of climate warming ...

The Chuckwalla is a stocky, flattened lizard native to the arid regions of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It has a habit of expelling salt when it sneezes, according to a zookeeper at the ...

Understanding community assembly is a fundamental goal of ecology and evolutionary biology, because it provides insight into how a given landscape changes in a synergistic fashion. With the current ...

We desert dwellers enjoy a huge diversity of native reptiles, especially in our open spaces, with an intriguing array of lizards present during the warm seasons. Some of them move lightning-fast, ...

In the desert, the sand surface can become extremely hot during the day, up to 70ºC. In order to escape these temperatures, some desert lizards adopt a fascinating strategy: They dive a few ...

Desert habitats are some of the harshest places on Earth: little water, scorching heat, and food sources loaded with salt make survival a constant battle. For chuckwallas and other desert lizards, ...