One animal in Australia is so difficult to spot it has been named the hidden dragon lizard. The reptile, which blends perfectly into the reddish orange terrain, avoided documented sightings for years.

The National Zoo welcomed four chameleon forest dragons on Nov. 11—the first ever born at the zoo. The babies' parents arrived at the Zoo's Rock Creek facility in June 2009, and the mother laid four ...

Scientists found a large “dragon”-like animal, able to change colors, in Myanmar and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Lwin Moe Aung via Unsplash Along a hilly road in Myanmar was a ...

Hunted for its tasty flesh, the brightly colored forest monitor lizard can grow to more than six feet (2 metres) in length but weighs only about 22 pounds (10 kg), said Rafe Brown of the University of ...

A giant, spectacularly colored new species of monitor lizard has just been revealed to scientists in the Philippines. The reptile, which is roughly 6 feet long (1.8 meters), is kin to Komodo dragons, ...

Scientists found a “large” spiky reptile with a pale belly in a rocky forest of Yunnan Province and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wang, Li, Mu, Xu and Che (2024) In a forest of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dragon-sized, fruit-eating lizard that lives in the trees on the northern Philippines island of Luzon has been confirmed as a new species, scientists reported on Tuesday.

In a forest of southern China, a spiky creature with a pale belly climbed into a rocky crack and settled in for the night. Or at least, it tried to. Passing scientists spotted the “miniature dragon” — ...