The aforementioned groovy reptile is a shovel-snouted lizard featured on the desert episode of Planet Earth II. While most of the desert animals stay underground during daytime to escape from the ...

The shovel-snouted lizard is one of the fastest lizards on the planet, able to move 3 feet within 1 second, the equivalent of 20 times its body length. Its speed is one of its many adaptations to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers captured more than 2,000 lizards during the study. Pictured above (left to right) are UCSC graduate students Christy Hipsley, Alison Davis (now at UC Berkeley), and Ammon Corl. Photo by ...