Like the Mexican mole lizard, it faces a problem living underground: thermoregulation. As a burrower, you’re pretty much stuck with the temperature of the soil.

Mexican mole lizards are members of a group of nearly 200 mostly limbless, burrowing lizards known as Amphisbaenia. Only this species and two others in the genus Bipes still have small front limbs.

Luckily, the reptiles have a clever way to block hungry snakes: they can self-amputate their tails on command. This might be a way to plug the burrow while the threatened Mexican mole lizard makes ...

Six of the Mexican giant horned lizards are currently being raised at Omaha's zoo — a species they said is endemic to southern Mexico's Pacific Coast.

DENVER — The Denver Zoo’s Mexican alligator lizard has given birth to four babies. These little lizards were “born” — this is a live-bearing species, which is unique for reptiles.

Uma exsul is a restricted, vulnerable, and rare Mexican lizard that occurs only in fine aeolian sand deposits of the central Chihuahuan Desert. The reproductive cycle of this oviparous lizard was ...

Mexican mole lizards are members of a group of nearly 200 mostly limbless, burrowing lizards known as Amphisbaenia. Only this species and two others in the genus Bipes still have small front limbs.

Scanning the desert landscape of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, few people would imagine what crawls beneath the surface. Bright pink, with rudimentary eyes and just two limbs, Mexican mole lizards ...