A giant 70kg lizard with razor-sharp teeth and enough venom to kill a human might sound like something from a nightmare, but it’s actually very real.

Lizards range from small insect hunters to massive apex predators, and their size varies dramatically by continent. In this ...

When the fossils of a giant plant-eating reptile were found in South East Asia, paleontologists wanted to give the world’s largest lizard ever discovered a proper name. They just couldn’t decide ...

The supersized dinosaurs of the past may no longer roam our planet, but the age of truly colossal reptiles is far from over. In fact, many of the world’s largest lizards belong to the genus Varanus, a ...

Megalania was the largest lizard to ever walk the Earth, a prehistoric giant that dominated Australia’s ancient landscapes. This massive reptile, a distant relative of today’s Komodo dragon, could ...