In 2018, researchers estimated there were fewer than 100 individuals of the critically endangered Sombrero ground lizard on ...

More information: Molly Schools et al, A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae), Zootaxa (2024). DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5554.1.1 Provided by Temple ...

Following a petition and legal victory by the Center for Biological Diversity and reptile ecologist Renata Platenberg, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect four skinks found ...

And now there’s a lizard in the Caribbean that shares his name: the James Bond forest lizard, found close to where author Ian Fleming wrote his iconic Bond novels. Researchers recently described ...

On a remote and rocky island in the Caribbean, a rare creature is making ... One of these at-risk creatures is the Sombrero ground lizard, an unassuming black reptile with long toes and a pointed ...

During his visit, Hoskin searched the island’s rainforests and noticed some unfamiliar-looking lizards, the study said. Intrigued, he caught a few and took them back to the mainland. When he ...