According to Goode, some rattlesnakes, like the western diamondback, actually den in groups of up to 10 to 20 individuals or even among other reptiles such as Gila monsters and desert tortoises.

It's not every day that you see an 8-foot-long Gila monster lounging beside a city street. And if the critter happens to be reading a book, well, that's bound to catch your attention. The literary ...

Bolg would have been a bit of a monster to our eyes. "Three feet tip to tail, maybe even bigger than that, depending on the length of the tail and torso," said Woolley.

A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of Utah that sat in storage for 20 years has now led to the discovery of an extinct “monster,” in the latest reminder that museum collections ...

Gila Monsters Arizona's most infamous resident, the Gila monster, is also found here. Although bites are relatively rare, ...

Size comparison of the holotype specimen of Bolg amondol (UMNH VP 16266, left, Natural History Museum of Utah / Bureau of Land Management) and a modern Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum, right ...

Gentle giants, cuddly friends, vicious monsters, deadly dragons: Even the earliest film depictions of dinosaurs evidence our complicated relationship with Earth’s prehistoric thunder lizards ...

Two wildfires on opposite ends of the Gila National Forest have torched more than 19,000 acres, prompting some highway closures and evacuations in southwestern New Mexico.

An adult male rests in the late afternoon sun about 50 yards from his coyote den. A family of six coyotes, one male, one female and four pups had created a den just off the Indian Bend bike path ...

A new species of ancient lizard is discovered in Utah. The lizard, named Bolg amondol, lived 75 million years ago. It was found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The fossil was ...

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