At first glance, a valley dragon doesn’t seem to have much in common with a grizzly bear or a condor. Though it has a striking look, large adults can measure a very ...
The Walnut Creek-based conservation group Save Mount Diablo is helping the population with a $5,240 grant for a custom weather station to aid research about the lizards' needs.
The creature was described as a new species in a study published Dec. 4 in the peer-reviewed journal Herpetozoa. Poyarkov said finding the “extremely elusive” snake in the first place was “a ...