A team of ecologists, climatologists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

Reptiles, and particularly dinosaurs, ruled the Earth for millions of years before mammals came along. Still today, many reptile species exist – over 12,000 in fact. Here we look at some of these ...

IN an earlier publication 1 a new sensitive method for the detection of small amounts of damage to human hair was reported. The method involves counting the numbers of cuticular and cortical cells ...

Gila monster at the Arizona-Sonora desert museum. Image by SearchNet Media, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Gila ...

Despite their name, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is not actually a monster at all. Instead, it is the largest lizard native to the United States. They are also the only venomous lizard ...