In Florida, winter can turn a tree into an awkward place to stand under. When cold snaps move across South Florida, green iguanas can appear lifeless on sidewalks, lawns, and canal edges. The animals ...

If you care about Florida’s native turtles, nesting birds, and wild spaces, this story will hit close to home. Nile monitor lizards — powerful, fast-moving carnivores that can grow up to 7 feet long ...

In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton—how much the ...

Unlike the green iguanas that have become a familiar, if unwelcome, sight in the region, Nile monitors are aggressive ...

Invasive Nile monitor lizards are carnivorous, can grow over six feet long, and are considered dangerous to humans and pets. Most of the over 2,000 sightings have occurred in South Florida, ...

A male Acanthosaura grismeri, or Grismer’s pricklenape lizard. Photo from Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Ziegler, Do and Ngo (2025), shared by Thomas Ziegler Researchers scanning tree branches with flashlights ...

A lizard with a protruding nose has been found again in Peru after vanishing from science for 150 years. Its return forces quick decisions about protecting the last forest pockets where it still ...

United States' Elizabeth Lemley holds her gold medal while celebrating after winning the women's freestyle skiing moguls finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 ...

United States' Jaelin Kauf, left, hugs United States' Elizabeth Lemley during the women's freestyle skiing moguls finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP ...