On an isolated island in the Federated States of Micronesia, community and invited scientists are attempting a world-first ...

This is the terrifying moment a wild monitor lizard was plucked from a family's toilet bowl in Thailand. The juvenile reptile was seen poking its head out of the water as it made splashing sounds in ...

Odatria, commonly known as dwarf monitors, consists of small monitor lizards found in Australia and Indonesia. Species in this subgenus include the smallest monitor species in the world, the tiny 16 ...

A water monitor lizard that went missing in Hong Kong for ... He was reported to have pushed open a wooden panel and fled through a small gap in the enclosure. The centre made an appeal the ...

A new species of small, venomous reptile, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, has been discovered in the Late Triassic Chinle ...

Some are abundant and widespread, while others are highly endangered and restricted to small regions, like the Komodo dragon, which is a type of monitor lizard found only in certain Indonesian ...

A water monitor lizard that had served as an animal ambassador at a Hong Kong conservation centre for nine years has died. The 16-year-old male lizard, named “Aberdeen”, died on August 30 ...