According to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, they also prey on other collared lizards. Our state has two native species of tortoise, the Sonoran Desert tortoise and the Mojave Desert tortoise ...

The reticulate collared lizard is listed as threatened in Texas, but this status does not protect it from loss of habitat, its greatest threat. Arizona night lizard and Bezy’s night lizard (Arizona): ...

This collared lizard oversees his territory while sitting on a large trunk of petrified wood in Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona. Mating of collared lizards begin each spring ...

Kristopher Lappin (Northern Arizona University) and Jerry F. Husak (Oklahoma State University) use the eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris ), a sexually dimorphic lizard in which the ...

As we welcome the warmer months here in Arizona, it's not uncommon for you to encounter a lizard or two enjoying the sunshine in your backyard. If you stare at them long enough you'll spot them ...

“It will bite and it will hang on,” Sandstrom said. FUN FACTS FROM THE EXPERTS Collared lizards live in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. They run on their hind legs, using the tail to balance ...

After a large monitor lizard was recently liberated from a storm drain on the side of Loop 101 in Phoenix, people began to wonder what monitors are and whether they belong in Arizona. A monitor ...

and Texas to New Mexico and Arizona and southward into parts of Mexico. In fact, the relatively large (8 to 14 inch total length) Eastern Collared Lizards are most often sighted basking on the ...