Why it's awesome: Earless monitor lizards are dragon-like reptiles that are so rare they're dubbed the "Holy Grail" of herpetology — the study of reptiles and amphibians. The species is the only known ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The earless monitor lizard has been described as a “holy grail” for reptile collectors. The German man’s arrest is not the first indicator of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an ...

Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an enormous challenge in the years ahead: avoiding extinction. As recently ...

If you’ve never heard of the earless monitor lizard, you’re not alone: this little-known, cryptic lizard has long-escaped the attention of the larger public. But over the past couple years its bizarre ...

SAN ANTONIO — It's hard to find someone in South Texas who has heard of the spot-tailed earless lizard, much less seen one in the wild. The lizard grows about as long as a dollar bill and has ...

On May 30, 2008, a research team armed with GPS units, notebooks, and binoculars set out into a dense patch of jungle in Indonesian Borneo. An oil palm company had commissioned them to survey the area ...

This column is being written based on the conversation that I had with two separate farmers in the Texas Panhandle who had both observed (and one photographed) a species of lizard that they had never ...

The greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) is the only member of its genus found in the U.S., and it is primarily a Texan. While it is commonly observed throughout the Big Country, Edwards ...

In the natural world, visible ears are not the only path to perception. While there are some animals that do not have visible means of receiving auditory perception due to the absence of ears, others ...

When a team of researchers set out to survey a patch of jungle in the Indonesian part of Borneo one May morning in 2008, they had no idea that they’d find the “holy grail of herpetology” on their ...