A female Komodo dragon was sprawled next to a tree, her black obsidian eyes unreadable ... there were only two known venomous lizards: the Gila monster of the American Southwest and the Mexican ...

The Gila monster is a large, magnificent, and venomous desert-dwelling reptile found throughout the southwestern US and Mexico. A toxic bite from the Gila can cause searing pain, loss of consciousness ...

American Southwest. But new research suggests that even this hardy species could see its habitat shrink significantly in the ...