Lizard news, features and articles

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An iguana. (Image credit: shikhei goh via Getty Images)

Lizards are an ancient group of reptiles home to thousands of living species and many more in the fossil record. Whether you're interested in lizards with multiple tails, a six-foot-long lizard terrifying a Florida family or the 240-million-year-old "mother of all lizards," Live Science has stories for you with the latest lizard news, articles and features written by our expert team of writers and editors.

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A close-up of a horned lizard

Short-horned lizard: The inflatable 'horny toad' that squirts toxic blood from its eyes

By Lydia Smith published

This little lizard can fire blood up to 5 feet from its face, has spiky horns and inflates itself to choke predators.

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Two images of the semi-aquatic lizard, Anolis aquaticus; Side view of lizard with round bubble on top of its head (left), front profile of lizard with bubble on top of its head between its eyes.

'Scuba-diving' lizards breathe underwater by wearing air bubbles on their noses — just like in a cartoon

By Elise Poore published

Scuba-diving lizards use bubbles to stay submerged in water for long periods of time.

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Close-up photograph of the thorny devil lizard.

Thorny devil: The spike-covered lizard that sucks water from sand through its skin

By Lydia Smith published

Thorny devils have a plethora of defenses against predators, including a fake head and a weird jerky walk.

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A pictured captured of the underside of the chameleon spotted on the branches in a tree moments before it died.

Watch chameleon erupt in color 'as if uttering her last words' in her final moments before death

By Hannah Osborne published

Footage of Labord's chameleon in last moments of her short life shows her skin burst into 'chaotic technicolor patterns' — a spectacle never observed in the wild before.

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Lyon's grassland skink on dried mud.

Surprise discovery of snake-like lizard feared extinct leaves scientists amazed

By Patrick Pester published

Researchers found three species of skink in Australia they feared could be extinct, including the Lyon's grassland striped skink.

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Two scaly earless monitor lizards sit together side by side on top of some leaves

Earless monitor lizards: The 'Holy Grail' of reptiles that looks like a mini dragon

By Patrick Pester published

Researchers are only beginning to understand the cryptic lives of the earless monitor lizards of Borneo.

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An artist's drawing of a mosasaur.

Newly discovered Cretaceous sea monster named after world-ending Norse serpent

By Jennifer Nalewicki published

Paleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur with "angry eyebrows" that lived 80 million years ago.

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A geckos head covered in white and gray scales with an eye of the same color surrounded by and orange ring.

This psychedelic-eyed gecko isn't what we thought it was

By Harry Baker published

The bright-eyed reptiles were identified as a new species after a genetic analysis of other geckos revealed they were separate from another closely related species.

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An artist’s drawing of a Triassic lizard.

Ancient lizard with teeth like butcher knives 're-calibrates the whole shebang' of reptile evolution

By Jennifer Nalewicki published

Despite being palm-size, this Triassic lizard had a vicious bite.

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The largest lizards are Komodo dragons from Indonesia.

Lizards: From tiny geckos to giant Komodo dragons

By Patrick Pester published

Lizards are a diverse group of reptiles made up of thousands of species around the world, including giant Komodo dragons and chameleons the size of your fingertip.

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