Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences ...

You may not even notice them as they sit quietly in the sun, but they are always watching you. Only if you approach too closely will they dart away into the leaf litter and undergrowth of nearby ...

In last week’s column we considered the land snail, one of the slowest critters in our Southern Appalachia fauna. This week we’ll take a look at one of the fastest, the fence lizard, which is also one ...

Carmen Scherrer photographed a cryptic little fence lizard on a wooden fence in First Landing State Park. You don’t see these common lizards very often, perhaps because they blend in so well with ...

You have probably seen hundreds of them in your life, the unassuming Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis). During summer months, they can be seen scampering about in our gardens, skittering ...

The first time I saw an eastern fence lizard, the lizard had mistaken my little grandson in his dark fleece jacket for a tree! We were walking that day in First Landing State Park. When I looked down ...

The five-lined skink is the only native New Jersey lizard that is found throughout the state. (Two others, the brown skink and fence lizard, are found only in the southern part of the state.) In North ...

Whenever I think about habitats where I might find lizards, the first places where I would begin my search would be on the ground and underneath rocks, leaf litter, and/or other surface debris.

Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences subdivided the landscape. At some point, one climbed a post and became known ...