On May 30, 2008, a research team armed with GPS units, notebooks, and binoculars set out into a dense patch of jungle in Indonesian Borneo. An oil palm company had commissioned them to survey the area ...

The lizard from Borneo — prized by collectors — would gain federal protections, but some commercial trade could still be allowed. The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Endangered Species Act ...

When a team of researchers set out to survey a patch of jungle in the Indonesian part of Borneo one May morning in 2008, they had no idea that they’d find the “holy grail of herpetology” on their ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed listing the Borneo earless monitor, an elusive lizard endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, as threatened under the Endangered ...

If you’ve never heard of the earless monitor lizard, you’re not alone: this little-known, cryptic lizard has long-escaped the attention of the larger public. But over the past couple years its bizarre ...