Vic Leipzig and Lou Murray. Bolsa Chica’s silvery legless lizards are beautiful silver, yellow and. black striped lizards that are pencil-thin and six- to seven-inches long.

“Blue bellies” are famous in the lizard world, at least among child naturalists. Orange County, appropriately enough, also is home to “orange bellies,” and that’s a lizard of another color.

The latest buzz in the reptile world is a new "bumblebee" gecko species discovered in Papua New Guinea. Dubbed Nactus kunan—kunan meaning "bumblebee" in the local Nali language—the black-and ...

Curiously, the female striped plateau lizard, which lives in the rocky slopes of Arizona's south-eastern mountains, is an exception to this rule in the animal world.

Pterin-based ornamental coloration predicts yolk antioxidant levels in female striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus). Journal of Animal Ecology , 2011; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01801.x ...