It’s springtime in the nature world. We came across two mating lizard couples yesterday while many others are running around like cuckoos trying to get into the game. (Looked up cuckoos and they’re a ...

Lizards visually “shout” to get noticed when they are surrounded by a busy background of moving foliage, new research reveals. Attracting the attention of a mate can be tricky for lizards that have ...

New research shows male lizards are more likely than females to be attacked by predators because the bright colors they need to attract a mate also make them more conspicuous to birds. In the animal ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds. A muscular ...

Last year, Katie Goldin was walking in her Los Angeles neighborhood when she saw, in the middle of the sidewalk, two lizards interlocked. The male, flecked like a pebble and about a foot long, had his ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. For the male peninsular rock agama, attracting a mate is all about demonstrating fearlessness. What better way than to perch up high on a rock, in ...

Scientists have documented the rare strategy where some female populations of one reptile species, the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), are actually male mimics. Here, around 70 percent of ...

A lizard at a UK zoo has given birth without mating in what has been described as "one of the rarest events in the animal kingdom". A female casque-headed iguana produced eight healthy hatchlings at ...