An Oregon man playing in the yard with his toddler sons captured a 6-foot-long lizard capable of killing pets and injuring humans. Ryan Nelson said he thought it was a crocodile when he first spotted the Nile monitor by the rose bushes.

DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog. Something chewed up the front fender of Bob and Dixie Rawson’s van in February. Bite marks were left on the...

A conservation group is demanding emergency listing under the Endangered Species Act for a lizard found only in isolated parts of New Mexico and Texas.WildEarth Guardians argues in a petition filed Thursday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in...

Seven-year-old Finley Collins thought her pet 12-inch bearded dragon might be giving birth when she noticed an unusual protrusion near the lizard’s tail.But Finley’s father, Jeff Collins, feared it might be something more ominous and rushed Mushu to an...