STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A litter of pint-sized Chinese crocodile lizards was born at the Staten Island Zoo in West Brighton this month, a spokesman said on Monday. The seven semiaquatic lizards are the ...

Paignton Zoo in Devon has hatched three very special – and very beautiful - Chinese crocodile lizards. In 2018, Paignton Zoo became the first major zoological collection in the UK to breed this ...

A team of paleontologists led by Chinese scientists has discovered the first known evidence of a bone tumor in a lizard preserved in Cretaceous-period amber, shedding new light on the prevalence of ...

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