Police found a young ornate Nile monitor lizard inside a vacant Alameda home. Alameda Police Department Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern California home probably weren’t sure what to expect. The officers found a young ornate Nile monitor had been ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape. Ever since, skin bones have remained a recurring motif in evolution. Yet we ...

Florida has a new invasive lizard that will require a lot of monitoring to keep the state's residents and natural spaces safe. The Nile monitor, an aggressive and fast-spreading invasive species, is ...

BALLSTON SPA - Eggs and bacon for breakfast and stuffed peppers and meatloaf for lunch are staples at the Doubleday Diner in Ballston Spa. When approached recently about adding a full Mexican menu, ...