Media Coverage

Television Coverage

• Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada, 2010, 6 minute segment featuring our research on Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum). Airdate: January 20, 2010.

• Wild Detectives, National Geographic, 2007, episode 9 (with lions), "Gila Monsters": A short, 3-minute "Blue's Clues"-like child detective clip on Gila monster's with Dr. DeNardo.

• ASU Research Review, KAET-TV, November 2005, #1302, "Tracking the Gila Monster": This episode includes an approximately 9-minute, segment covering Gila monster research by the DeNardo lab.

• Reptile Wild with Dr. Brady Barr, National Geographic, 2003, "Arizona Rattlers": Brady Barr visits the DeNardo field to learn about Gila monsters and diamondback rattlesnakes.

• Arizona Wildlife Views TV, AZ Game and Fish Department, 2003, episode 12, "Gila Monster": a short, approximately 6 minute, segment on our lab's Gila Research.

• Wild Discovery, Discovery Channel, 2002, "Tracking Deadly Vipers": DeNardo lab's western diamond-backed rattlesnake research is one of several featured studies on American vipers.

• National Geographic Explorer, 2001, "Gila Monsters!": Our lab's Gila monster research is the primary feature of this half-hour documentary.

• ASU Research Review, KAET-TV, May 2001, #1002, "Snake Trackers": This episode includes an approximately 9-minute segment covering the DeNardo lab rattlesnake research.

Print Coverage

• Endeavors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2007, "The natural enemies of diabetes: Gila monsters": This short article on the effectiveness of exendin-4, a Gila saliva protein, at treating diabetes features a photo by Jon Davis of one of our Gilas.

• Wildlife, British Broadcasting Company, August 2007, "Gila monsters ‘tap’ urine": This short article with photo highlights our research on the use of the urinary bladder as a canteen.

• Chain Reaction , Arizona State University, 2006, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 20-23, "Monster Tales": This 4-page article including magazine cover photo covers the Gila monster research being conducted in the lab.

• Nature Australia , Summer 2004-2005, "Cloacal Cooling": This short article highlights our research on the Gila monster’s use of its cloaca to cool itself.

• Mountain Lines, McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, August 2007, Vol. 14, no. 5, "An Interview with a Scientist - Dr. Dale DeNardo": An interview examining DeNardo Lab Gila monster research as well Dr. DeNardo view on the values of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.

• ASU SOLS News, School of Life Sciences, December 10, 2007, "Bigger Bladder Key to Sonoran Survival": Articles described the use of the urinary bladder as means of providing water balnce during seasonal drought.

• Smithsonian Zoogoer, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Nov/Dec 2007, "Myths and Monsters": This article on Gila monsters mostly features DeNardo lab research.

• National Geographic Magazine, September 2006, "Sonoran Desert": Author Douglas Chadwick makes his experience at our field site tracking Gila monsters with graduate student Jon Davis a signficiant component of his article that broadly covers the Sonoran Desert.

• ASU Research Magazine, Spring 2005, "True Monster Tales" : An interview with Dr. DeNardo discussing the lab's Gila monster work.

• Chain Reaction, Arizona State University, 2004, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 14-17, "Tracking Rattlers": This 4-page article including magazine cover photo covers the diamondback rattlesnake research of graduate student Emily Taylor for this student-oriented magazine.

Web Coverage

• Live Science, Feb 2007, "Bird Butts Shed Excess Heat": This short article reviews collaborative work with Dr. Glenn Walsberg's lab on the cloaca as a site of evaporative cooling in birds.

• University of Alabama Research Magazine Online, 2006, "Take Two Drops of Lizard Spit and Call Me in the Morning": This artlice features the collaborative work on exendin-4 and Gila monster digestive physiology carried out in Dr. Stephen Secor's lab at the University of Alabama.

• ASU News featured stories, 2005, "ASU's DeNardo explores true monster tales": a feature article promoting the Spring 2005 ASU Research Magazine article.

Audio Coverage

• Ask a Biologist podcast, 2010 vol. 53, "Keeping Your Cool - Thermoregulation", a podcast interview of Dr. DeNardo and Arno Vlooswijk discussing how animals regulate body temperature.

• SOLS Science Studio podcast, 2007 vol. 13, "Monsters of the Desert", a podcast interview of Dr. DeNardo discussing Gila monsters.