Colorful reptile protected by fire, study shows. Aug. 25, 2011 — -- Alan Templeton was a 13-year-old Boy Scout when he saw his first collared lizard in Missouri's Ozark Mountains. He returned ...

SOAKING UP THE SUN: Collared lizards love to bask in the sun. About four dozen of the reptiles were released across glade habitats in northern Arkansas in May. Credit: Little Rock Zoo Nearly four ...

Forty-three eastern collared lizards bred at the Little Rock Zoo have new homes in the Arkansas Ozarks thanks to an innovative collaboration among the zoo, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, ...

A dozen Oklahoma-born eastern collared lizards now call Arkansas home and, with a little luck, these transplants may be able to replenish a pocket of prime habitat in west-central Arkansas. The ...

A dozen Oklahoma-born eastern collared lizards now call The Natural State home thanks to a partnership between the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife, the Little ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 51, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 197-201 (5 pages) Increasing evidence indicates that sex-determination mechanisms in reptiles (genotypic sex determination [GSD] and temperature ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Little Rock Zoo announced Tuesday the birth of a lizard species in a joint conservation project. The zoo said 20 Eastern collared lizards were born in an effort to repopulate ...

Scientists found a rock-dwelling animal with neck “pockets” in Rondônia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from André Luiz Carvalho A “collared” creature stood guard on a rocky ...

The warm, sunny days of early spring make me feel like a lizard. I just want to lie on a rock, bask in the sun and thaw out my bones. The (mostly) warm and sunny weather we have enjoyed the past few ...