For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a rare new lizard species with no front arms and only back limbs, revealing how ...

Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

A myriad of colours that survived millions of years of evolution have disappeared in a short period of time. The culprit? A bright green, aggressive, and sexually dominant wall lizard that has wiped ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos – delicious Latin American pastries – fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. Here we ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...