“Sax’s actual lizards are as wondrous as their dragon and dinosaur relatives. In this sweeping natural/unnatural history, Sax presents lizards in their multiple biological and imaginary forms, from prehistory to the current sixth great extinction. With its wide-ranging research, engaging style, and eclectic illustrations, Lizard is Sax’s compelling extension of his award-winning studies of living animals and our folkloric and mythic creations.”
— Joseph Nigg, author of "The Book of Fabulous Beasts: A Treasury of Writings from Ancient Times to the Present"
"Though called toads or frogs, the Texas state reptiles are really lizards. But as Sax notes in Lizard, the term is a catchall, not a useful taxonomic category. Conceptually, lizards include not just various four-legged reptiles, but also crocodiles and tuataras, salamanders and armadillos, dragons and dinosaurs."
— TIm Morris, lection
“Lizard and Dinomania present author/researcher Sax at his multidisciplinary best: mixing and relating biology, botany, paleontology, anthropology, biography, history, mythology, art history, popular culture, and more, into coherent wholes. The skillful way he interweaves these various themes reminds this reviewer of the pictures and models of DNA strands as the complexity of the finished product emerges. . . . Sax and Reaktion Books receive extremely high marks for the quality of these books: not only good binding, but exemplary reproduction of illustrations in both black and white and color. An editorial choice was made to place illustrations throughout—rather than in special sections—something for which all readers should be grateful.”
— Independent Scholar
"One of the most appealing features of this book is that it is packed with thought-provoking information on the adaptations and behaviors of selected reptile species. . . . This colorful and lavishly illustrated book, while providing considerable information on the biology of lizards, is enriched with many connections to human culture—its art, religious practices, folklore, mythology, astrology, literature, history—and comparisons between reptile and human characteristics and behavior."
— American Biology Teacher