If you live in California, you’ve probably seen, or held, a western fence lizard. According to a leading dataset of animal and plant observations, the species is the most commonly spotted reptile in ...

Long dismissed as unintelligent, reptiles are emerging as cognitively and emotionally complex animals. A new study involving tortoises suggests that they also possess mood states. By Brandon Keim ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than scientists first thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The tuatara, a reptile native to New Zealand, looks like a lizard but belongs to a completely different evolutionary branch. A study published in Nature in 2020 revealed that tuataras have one of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Finding good data to determine trends in the exotic reptile ...