Geckos are from the Gekkonidae family. These reptiles are nocturnal animals that you can find everywhere except in Antarctica ...

Years ago, Jason Bourque was digging through storage at the Florida Museum of Natural History when he came across a ...

The tegu, long thought to be an invasive species, turns out to have arrived in North America about 16 million years earlier ...

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

Researchers uncover a new tegu species from a fossil vertebra in Florida, revealing ancient lizards once roamed North America ...

South Africa is a hub for the international pet trade, with thousands of animals exported each year. Many of these are exotic ...

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Summertime means critters and nuisance animals are out and active in Florida. Here's a refresher on state laws around ...

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the ...

Animals that rely exclusively on parthenogenesis to reproduce, like the flowerpot snake, are called obligate parthenogens, ...

Some species of Lizards, such as skinks, contain green blood due to a pigment called biliverdin. They lack hemoglobin ...