Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

Dr Rakesh Verma [email protected] Nestled within the breathtaking, and often dramatically vertical, landscapes of Jammu and Kashmir lies a remarkable herpetological story. Beyond the iconic ...

The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard on Earth and an apex predator with an unusually high hunting success rate. It often doesn’t kill prey outright, instead inflicting deep wounds and ...

Spread across floodplains, deltas, high-altitude plateaus and coastal fringes, these watery landscapes act as nurseries for ...

Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Namibia is endowed with an extraordinary range of wildlife, magnificently adapted to survive and flourish under the country's harsh arid and semi-arid climatic conditions, including a remarkable ...

(KRON) — A giant lizard was found abandoned inside an empty Alameda residence. According to the Alameda Police Department, officers responded to a call reporting a “Komodo dragon” inside a home. “That ...

Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern California home probably weren’t sure what to expect. The officers found a young ornate Nile monitor had been ...

Approximately 290 million years ago, a carnivorous dinosaur stomping around present-day Germany had a tummy ache. The Paleozoic predator eventually vomited up its stomach contents, and then hopefully ...

It’s been almost exactly two years since Nvidia announced G-Sync Pulsar, its new backlight strobing technology designed to limit display motion blur caused by old images persisting on the viewer’s ...

Indonesian authorities have detained five people in connection with the alleged illegal hunting and shooting of an endangered ...