Category: Wild Lizards

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Florida Hires Iguana Trapper To Control The Green Iguana

Florida Hires Iguana Trapper To Control The Green Iguana

The green iguana is an invasive species in Florida, first appearing in the state in the 1960s. [...]
Three Australian Lizards Declared Extinct In The Wild

Three Australian Lizards Declared Extinct In The Wild

The Lister's gecko, the blue-tailed skink and the Christmas Island forest-skink are now extinct in the wild. [...]
Tokay Gecko In Mexican Standoff With Golden Treesnake In Thailand

Tokay Gecko In Mexican Standoff With Golden Treesnake In Thailand

The treesnake may have bit more than it could chew with the large lizard. [...]
Asian Water Monitors Thrive In Palm Oil Plantations

Asian Water Monitors Thrive In Palm Oil Plantations

Varanus salvator macromaculatus is thriving in palm oil plantations for now. [...]

Researchers Discover 15 New Gecko Species In Myanmar

The Cyrtodactylus and Hemiphyllodactylus geckos hail from just a 90 by 50 kilometer area of the country formally known as Burma. [...]
Florida Keys Mole Skink Denied Endangered Species Act Protection

Florida Keys Mole Skink Denied Endangered Species Act Protection

The Florida Keys mole skink lives just 20 to 31 inches above sea level. [...]
Nevada Bans Collection Of Reptiles For Commercial Purposes

Nevada Bans Collection Of Reptiles For Commercial Purposes

Prior to the ban, reptile collectors could take as many reptiles as they wanted. [...]
Herp Queries: Can I Keep A Thorny Devil?

Herp Queries: Can I Keep A Thorny Devil?

Thorny devils (Moloch horridus) are native to Australia and are illegal to keep or export out of the country. [...]
Two Lizard Species Slow High Speed Rail Project In Germany

Two Lizard Species Slow High Speed Rail Project In Germany

Efforts have been underway for several months to relocate the lizards. [...]
Nevada To Consider Banning Or Limiting Commercial Collection Of Wild Reptiles

Nevada To Consider Banning Or Limiting Commercial Collection Of Wild Reptiles

Nevada does not have a limit on the number of reptiles collected in the wild. [...]
Komodo Dragon Trappers

Komodo Dragon Trappers

A New Jersey zookeeper embarks upon the adventure of a lifetime, catching and releasing Komodo dragons. [...]
Why No Whiptail Lizards?

Why No Whiptail Lizards?

The whiptails of the Americas and their close cousins, the ameivas, are fast on their feet. [...]
Sungazer Lizard Faces Extinction Due To Farming And Illegal Animal Trade

Sungazer Lizard Faces Extinction Due To Farming And Illegal Animal Trade

The Sungazer lizard population has declined by more than a third over the last 10 years. [...]
Herp Queries With Bill Love: The Earless Monitor

Herp Queries With Bill Love: The Earless Monitor

The earless monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) has been the Holy Grail of herpetoculture for many decades. [...]
Three Chameleon Species Discovered in Central Africa

Three Chameleon Species Discovered in Central Africa

The three chameleon species were discovered in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo. [...]
New Species of Hemidactylus Gecko Discovered in India

New Species of Hemidactylus Gecko Discovered in India

Hemidactylus chipkali is also called the Central Indian Leaf-toed gecko. [...]
Google Honors 37th Anniversary of Komodo National Park in Indonesia

Google Honors 37th Anniversary of Komodo National Park in Indonesia

If you do a Google search today, or just go to the Google page, you will notice a Google Doodle of a lizard. That lizard is a Komodo dragon (Varanus k [...]

New Acanthosaura Lizard Discovered in Phuket, Thailand

Acanthosaura phuketensis is a type of mountain horned dragon, also known as pricklenape agamas [...]
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