When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee. Perhaps, if you’re feeling adventurous, a butterfly or a hummingbird. That’s a ...

A monitor lizard, or Varanus salvator, joins the bird in front of the lens, blundering into the clearing as the bird once again shoots up its feathers and charges the lizard before darting off, the ...

Wildlife rescuers used a makeshift stretcher to haul a massive monitor lizard out of a resident's home in Thailand. The officers were called to the residence in Phetchabun after a terrified local ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

They bite, excrete acid, asphyxiate their prey and create huge super colonies that are hard to kill. What to know ...

Geckos are one of the most common reptiles on the planet. There are nearly 2,000 species of gecko in seven distinct gecko ...

Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the ...

Blue-tongue lizards are common in Aussie backyards, but do they really keep snakes away? Here’s what a wildlife experts says.

In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow ...

The pink and dwarf sundews, found in Big Thicket, have captivated naturalists for centuries—and insects cannot resist their ...

Big Lizard frustrates Dad by stealing a strange plant from the ship. A disaster is averted when Big Lizard persuades Dad there's more to this plant than meets the eye. And nose ...

A frequent editorial-meeting note from former Chron publisher, current Chron president Nick Barbaro is “So. What are we doing for Bastille Day?” While there’s not quite the outcrop of French ...