The giant horned lizard may weigh just 3 ounces — but it strikes twice as fast as a rattlesnake. When threatened, it builds ...

The video documents a serious incident in which a venomous beaded lizard delivers a bite during close handling. What begins as a controlled interaction quickly escalates as the effects of venom become ...

Seeing a large monitor lizard inside or around your home can be frightening. These reptiles are strong, fast, and can grow several feet long depending.

In the rainforests of Central and South America, a bright green snake often slips silently through the trees. Known as the ...

The Komodo dragon holds the title of Earth’s largest living lizard. These massive reptiles dominate Indonesia’s volcanic ...

Kashmir rock agamas (Laudakia tuberculata) can be found at altitudes ranging from 150 m to as high as nearly 4,000 m in Ladakh’s Nubra valley; there are a handful of records of this species from the M ...

Animals face a constant battle to survive, not just by finding food but by avoiding becoming food themselves. Over millions of years, evolution has produced a vast range of defense strategies, from ...

Eng managed to isolate the molecule responsible, a protein called exendin-4 bearing a remarkable resemblance to human glucagon-like-protein-1 (GLP-1), which stimulates insulin production. When ...

A giant 70kg lizard with razor-sharp teeth and enough venom to kill a human might sound like something from a nightmare, but it’s actually very real.

England rugby player Maro Itoje offered such simple yet sage advice to sportspeople of all disciplines during the week when ...

Spider-Man has faced many villains across his movie history, and the first 10 vary considerably in their power levels.