These cold-blooded animals evolved over 300 million years ago, adapting to nearly every environment on Earth. Today, many lizards thrive as land-dwelling, tree-climbing or desert-living creatures, ...

These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop, but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows ...

Palaeontologists have found a new species of pterosaur - the family of prehistoric flying reptiles ... in the remains of a desert oasis. The discovery suggests that these animals thrived around ...

The Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base houses vulnerable young desert tortoises until they're hardy enough to withstand ...

The Walnut Creek-based conservation group Save Mount Diablo is helping the population with a $5,240 grant for a custom weather station to aid research about the lizards' needs.