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 ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Zoo says it is now home to three rare baby Gray's monitor lizards that hatched last month. Zoo officials said Monday they believe the births give their institution ...

They plan to leave no stone unturned in the hunt for the “Lost Lizards of Los Angeles.” That’s what experts at Los Angeles County’s Natural History Museum are calling an unusual wildlife safari they ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday. Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists are studying why the Italian wall lizard introduced into a Los Angeles neighborhood 20 years ago has virtually replaced a native species. The relative newcomer has ...

What lizard is known as the Spiderman lizard and can scale vertical walls? It's the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama that lives ...