3. Temperature: Your tank should include either a ceramic heater, reptile basking light, or lightbulb that emits heat to keep your lizard warm. An under-tank heater or heat lamp is a good choice ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter, a young Komodo dragon named Onyx. Reptile keepers have been working with these lizards for decades, including ...

They took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Calotes sinyik, or the Sinyik ...

The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds. A muscular carnivore armed with sharp teeth, Varanus komodoensis dines on prey as large ...

They’ll likely be empty, but if you’re lucky, you’ll draw near, and there it will be: the world’s biggest lizard, a grim-faced giant known as the Komodo dragon. The man who devised this ...

These lizards thrive in urban gardens, open fields and scrubland. They are distributed all over Asia and are among over 350 ...

According to Joe Capon of London Zoo, Komodo dragons have been a stable species for 90 million years. They evolved from giant monitor lizards from Australia, but have been isolated so long that ...

Indonesia is home to around 3,300 rare Komodo dragons, according to Reuters news agency. The world's largest lizard have razor-sharp teeth, a venomous bite, and grow to a length of three-metres ...

Known by different names such as the frilled agama, the frill-neck lizard, the frill-necked lizard, and the frilled dragon, this species of lizard is often equated to a modern representation of ...

The viral image has sparked questions about the impact on the conservation of the famed dragons, the world's largest lizards. Officials said no dragons had been harmed and their safety was paramount.