The green basilisk lizard is also called a plumed or double ... green basilisks spend much of their time in the trees and are never far from a body of water. When threatened, they can drop from ...

Babies in the womb have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands ... The biologists are planning more work looking at other parts of the human body in detail. They have already studied the feet ...

If you pick up a legless lizard, you'll notice that it doesn't feel quite like a snake, and that's in part because of this difference in body-to-tail proportion. Since the tail is stiffer than the ...

The shells of a turtle and a tortoise are part of their skeleton ... which cover an animal's body. Most reptiles have scales. Tuatara – A rare reptile, like a lizard, that is found only in ...

They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles ... Unlike birds and mammals, reptiles do not maintain a constant internal body temperature. Without fur or feathers for insulation, they cannot ...