WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to finalize federal protections for blue tree monitor lizards. The protections would ban ...

A nonprofit is trying to save a highly threatened species from falling off the map before it's too late. The Center for Biological Diversity shared a press release about its lawsuit against the U.S.

The Fish and Wildlife Service’s assessment of Indonesia’s remarkable blue tree monitor lizard has roiled exotic wildlife traders while the agency keeps shifting gears. The service started slowly and ...

Civil complaint seeking to compel federal wildlife officials to issue a final determination on whether the blue tree monitor lizard should be listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

The world’s monitor lizards remind us that the world was once ruled by reptiles: this genus (Varanus) includes the world’s biggest lizards, such as the stunning Komodo dragon and many other island ...

What if the color blue in nature isn’t really blue at all? It sounds impossible. Because when you see a bright blue animal, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I said in the previous Tet Zoo article on ...