Florida's fragile native environment has been invaded by countless exotic and invasive animals that have found their way to places they're not meant to be — most often introduced by humans. They prey ...

TAMPA, Fla. — You can add a lizard that can grow up to a foot long to the list of nonnative species that call the Sunshine State their home away from home. Researchers at the University of Florida say ...

African redhead agamas are hard to miss. The male lizards have bright orange heads, dark blue bodies, multicolored tails and can grow up to a foot long. Females aren't quite as colorful, though they ...

As a battle for territory unfolds between two different species of lizards invasive to Florida, a team of University of Florida scientists is trying to determine what it could mean for public health.

To say Timothy Russell is proud of his Golden Agama trophy would be an understatement. While the trophy for winning Agamapalooza in September is just a rubber lizard spray-painted gold, don’t tell him ...

FLORIDA – A team of scientists from the University of Florida is exploring the impact of a lizard population shift that could influence the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. The brown anole, a ...

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in semideserts in East Africa. An Instagram post from venueearth features this ...