Sand lizards have been reintroduced to an area of Surrey heathland previously damaged by wildfire. Eight of the reptiles, which were bred in captivity, have been released on the Ash Ranges, west of ...

Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts On a chilly evening in May, torchlights flash through the kānuka of Te Ākau/Bream Bay's sand dunes. One ...

A unique kind of lizard known as the thorny devil, or also called the thorny dragon, is able to live in intensely dry and arid environments because of an innate ability to draw water from the sand ...

When the tiny lizard known as the sandfish moves through sand, it literally dives under the surface of the ground as if swimming. Now physicists have figured out how they do it – and want to build ...

Scientists found a camouflaged animal with a long tail on sand dunes near Boshruyeh and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, ...

Federal wildlife officials declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species Friday, citing future energy development, sand mining and climate change as the ...

On the scruffy shrublands of the Iberian Peninsula, where the summers are parched and sweltering, it doesn’t take much for a spark to catch. The wildfires burn hot and fast, stripping the soil of its ...

Federal wildlife officials declared the dunes sagebrush lizard an endangered species due to threats from energy development. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the lizard is "in danger of ...