Lizards possess a unique survival trick. They can detach their tails to escape predators. This process is called autotomy.

"The parts of the brain that allow us to do this are in regions of the human brain that have expanded recently in our ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Back at the lab, they pulled the lizards’ tails with their fingers, coaxing them into acts of autotomy. They filmed the resulting process at 3,000 frames per second using a high-speed camera.

But according to the authors of this new study, published in the journal Development, we haven’t been able to track the formation of these temporary body parts in humans with any great detail ...

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

Colour change on different body regions provides thermal and signalling advantages in bearded dragon lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B , June 2016 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0626 Cite This ...

Lizards have the ability to break off their own tail when attacked by a ... New understanding of lizard tails could allow humans to regrow body parts By Ben Coxworth. August 21, 2014 Facebook; ...

Large, invasive lizard is taking over parts of Fla. Danica Lawrence. WTSP-TV, Tampa, Fla. More than 100 black-and-white tegu lizards have been spotted in Hillsborough County; ...

Rhys Ifans has revealed that he refused a body double for the role of the Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man. The actor takes on the part of Dr Curt Connors in the reboot of the Marvel superhero ...

Herpetologists discovered a lizard with a huge fecal bolus taking up 80 percent of its body mass, ... Natalie Claunch, a Ph.D. candidate, was part of the team that found this lizard.

With anoles, the species tend to fit into different ecomorphs, or body shapes, adapted to living in different parts of the forest. The ones that live close to the ground and jump around a lot tend ...