In March 2024, a Colorado man died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster. Before that, DeNardo says, there had been no fatalities from a Gila bite for several decades. If you do encounter a ...

A molecule in lizard saliva may make it easier to find certain tumors in the pancreas.

Christopher Ward’s death may have been the first from a Gila monster in the US in almost a century, but the creature’s bite is well-known to be excruciating. Within minutes of Ward’s pet ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A Lakewood man died after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster, according to police. On Feb. 12 at 11:45 p.m., Jeffcom received a 911 call about an animal bite. The Lakewood ...

Authorities in Colorado have confirmed the death of a 34-year-old local resident four days after he was bitten by one of his two pet Gila monsters. The creatures are venomous reptiles native to ...

The results were clear—while the basic PET scans detected tumors 65 percent of the time, the new, Gila monster-derived option did so with a 95 percent accuracy rate. In instances where the ...