Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

According to one app for nature observers, it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why?

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

I have a photographic memory of the Christmas morning when a 10-year-old me was given the gift she’d been begging for — a Chinese box turtle we named Ping — carried down to ...

Your goldendoodle might still steal socks, but now he also looks like he manages a coffee shop on weekends. AI photo ...

Scroll through social media, and you’re bound to spot an “exotic pet,” an animal companion that isn’t a farm animal or a ...

The tidal mudflats at South Walney provide a feeding ground for various marine species like fiddler crabs, common shore crabs, starfish and mussels. Common frogs, toads, and lizards can sometimes be ...

A paleontological discovery has been made in central and eastern Oregon, offering new insights into prehistoric times.

The Lazarus lizard was smuggled into Cincinnati from Italy more than 70 years ago. A team of student researchers at Ohio ...

He may only weigh 3 ounces, but this little lizard just helped make veterinary history.Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s ...