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 ...

Female lizards may do push ups to defend territory or reject unwanted advances. In Arizona, spotting a lizard is as common as finding sunscreen in your glovebox. These scaly little sunbathers love ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...