LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) — Police in California announced two arrests and the return of a pair of unique lizards that were stolen from a reptile shop last year. The Long Beach Police Department said ...

California is home to a surprising number of non-native reptiles that have established populations far outside their natural ...

A cold-blooded crime was solved after California police found two exotic lizards that had been stolen from a reptile store last year, authorities said. Two Australian lace monitors -- reptiles that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Department of Fish and Wildlife today recommended that the Temblor legless lizard move toward protection under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The action came in ...

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 ...

A Southern California man is accused of smuggling more than 1,700 reptiles — including baby crocodiles and Mexican beaded lizards — into the U.S. since 2016, authorities said Thursday. Jose Manuel ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California scientists have discovered four species of legless lizards hidden in unlikely habitats among central valley oil derricks, sand dunes at the end of a Los Angeles ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service determined the Temblor legless lizard is not eligible to be listed under the Endangered Species Act. A skinny legless lizard that lives on a 90-mile strip of habitat in ...

The hikers took photos of the creature and reported it to park officials. Photo from Santa Clara County Parks An invasive creature native to South America has been found and captured at a Northern ...

Southern California’s alligator lizards eat the arachnids with abandon, and seem to have evolved immunity to their toxins. The western black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) may spin a disorderly ...

The Argentine black and white tegu was the subject of a five-day-long search at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Northern California Clare Fisher is an Associate Editor on the News team at PEOPLE, ...