Mojave fringe-toed lizards have numerous traits tailored to their sand-dwelling lifestyle. Foremost are the lizards' scaly hind toes, which resemble snowshoes and keep them from sinking as they sprint ...

“Sometimes, during the peak season, we report eight-10 cases of poaching in the Thar Desert region per month.” Poaching of the spiny-tailed lizard is not rare in western Rajasthan, especially ...

HABITAT: The flat-tailed horned lizard is most often found in desert scrub on sandy flats and valleys with little or no windblown sand, as well as on salt flats and gravelly soils. RANGE: The ...

A new species of lizard has been discovered in mountains and ranges in the Central Australian desert. The Liopholis aputja is deeply genetically divergent from its most closely related lizard ...