Wildlife officials say a large exotic lizard was found buried in the snow in Rhode Island. A man spotted the cold-blooded ...

Researchers in the UK have now adapted a Raman spectroscopy technique to analyse preservation fluids in specimen jars without ...

Falling iguanas get the attention during cold snaps, but at Punta Gorda’s Iguanaland, cold weather triggers a carefully ...

The world used to be full of giant tortoises, and the ones that live on the Seychelles and Galápagos islands are all we have left. But how did these big reptiles get to the islands in the first place?

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Back in the late 1800s, groups of whalers, settlers, and pirates completely shifted the balance of the Galapagos Islands by ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s most impressive longevity experiments. Giant tortoises are redefining what ...

FILE -Giant leaf-tailed geckos hang on the wall of their cage, July 31, 2008, in Columbia, as S.C. Ed Diebold, director of animal collections at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, talks about the mating ...

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ecuador, which governs the Galápagos Islands, submitted two separate proposals to list the land iguana species and the marine iguana on CITES ...