Most lizards that enter homes, such as geckos or anoles, are harmless and do not possess venom or toxins harmful to people. These lizards play beneficial roles in controlling insect populations.

Some lizards have evolved to be resistant to the venom of snakes, entering into a sort of evolutionary arms race with their ...

The Gila monster's bite may be agonising, but humans have been using the lizard's venom to save lives. Over 30 years ago scientists discovered the potential of Gila monster venom as a treatment for ...

In an interesting encounter in the Buffelshoek section of the Sabi-Sand Game Reserve, a plated lizard and a snake engaged in ...

These medications, now widely used for treating diabetes and obesity, owe their existence to a key component of the lizard's venom, Science Alert reported. At the close of the 20th century ...

Monitor lizards, utilizing their claws, powerful jaws, and agility, sometimes manage to defend themselves, but the cobra's venom typically secures its win in the wild. The fight between a king ...

The diagram illustrates separate gene duplications in different parts of the phylogeny for platypus venom defensin-like peptides (vDLPs), for lizard venom crotamine-like peptides (vCLPs), and for ...