The lizard is surrounded. She darts beneath a spiky shrub, a towering figure in a wide-brimmed hat looming over her. Corey Roelke shouts for someone to put down another glue trap. Edita Folfas swiftly ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Out in western Texas, there's an extremely rare lizard called the Dixon's whiptail. The fast-moving reptile – which measures about 8 to 12 inches in length and is gray in color with ...

In the Chinati Mountains of western Texas lives a rare lizard. Commonly known as Dixon’s whiptail, the fast-moving reptile measures about 8 to 12 inches in length, is gray in color with white or ...

A rare lizard species in Colorado reacts to stress-inducing loud noises by eating, a study found. Researchers studied the Colorado checkered whiptail, an all-female lizard species, in 2021. Noise ...

There is no war between the sexes with the Colorado checkered whiptail. That's because she's always female. In dry canyons and grasslands, these lizards reproduce through parthenogenesis. Eggs develop ...

Overeating isn’t just for stressed-out humans, it seems. According to a new study published in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, it’s also the preferred coping mechanism of a certain ...