Six men are facing criminal charges on suspicion of smuggling two rare perentie lizards, a protected species under the Washington Convention, into Japan. Tokyo police referred all six cases to ...

The monstrous lizard known as Godzilla is getting ready to stomp his way back onto the big screen in Japanese studio Toho's ...

discovered in Japan. The fossil, dating back to the early Cretaceous Period, was discovered in 2019. About 2 centimeters long, it was part of a lizard’s lower left jaw and features two teeth ...

They were brought there." Among the people of Ulithi, oral histories describe how the lizards were introduced by the Japanese during a period of colonisation between 1920 and 1944 to control rats.