A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, the U.S.’ busiest fossil fuel region. The dunes sagebrush lizard ...
Work at Boston's Museum of Science isn't always glamorous. Someone's gotta clean the lizard boogers. In a new behind-the-scenes video, a museum employee cheerfully shares their experience cleaning ...
The University of Texas at Arlington team will use her tissue to study her genome and, hopefully, prove once and for all that ...
The Chuckwalla is a stocky, flattened lizard native to the arid regions of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It has a habit of expelling salt when it sneezes, according to a zookeeper at the ...
Desert lizards, like chuckwallas, face harsh conditions with salty food and little water. To combat this, they've evolved a unique adaptation: sneezing salt. Specialized nasal glands filter excess ...
New findings are showing that as our planet warms, desert lizards face a real energy crisis. According to an article from ...
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