The Los Angeles Zoo is celebrating a first — it successfully hatched a pair of healthy perentie lizards. The long-necked lizards are among the world’s largest, reaching more than 8 feet long and ...

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 ...

Built with $14.1 million approved by voters in Proposition CC , the LA Zoo will open its Living Amphibian Invertebrate Reptile exhibit tomorrow. The LAIR exhibit includes some of the creepiest, ...

That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. The News & Observer spoke with local wildlife experts to learn about these reptiles — where they ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Sometimes it can be too darn hot even for a lizard. Cold-blooded ...

If you have ophidiophobia — a fear of snakes — then you may be relieved to know that many species of legless, slithering creatures aren’t actually snakes. Instead, they’re creatures called legless ...