With its tiny, spiky body, the armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus) looks like a baby dragon and has a defensive ...

Lizard tail regeneration represents a remarkable example of epimorphic regeneration in amniote vertebrates, offering insights into tissue repair processes that contrast sharply with the scarring ...

Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can regenerate a lost appendage. But in lieu of the original tail that includes a spinal column and nerves, the ...

Graduate students Jonathan DeBoer and Joshua Hallas study a species of lizard known as the Herero girdled lizard in Namibia, and recently published an observation of the lizard exhibiting tail-biting ...

Feel like you’ve stepped into a rerun of “Game of Thrones” when you venture outdoors in South Florida these days? It’s not your imagination. There are more lizards of a distinctive appearance and size ...

LEE COUNTY, SC (WIS) - June 29 is the 30th anniversary of the first sighting of the Scape Ore Swamp Lizard Man. But WHO is the Lizard Man? Or WHAT is the Lizard Man? Since 1988, its sightings have ...

Sometimes, the best way to avoid being eaten is to puzzle your predator. Few animals have come up with such a dramatic way of doing this as certain species of lizards, which can suddenly detach part ...

When I was little, I was surprised that lizards could behave so intelligently, even though their brains and bodies are so small. Their eyes, always keeping an eye on me no matter where I went in my ...

Research into abnormal regeneration events in lizards has led to the first published scientific review on the prevalence of lizards that have re-generated not just one, but two, or even up to six, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the latest chapter in a 16-year legal battle to keep the flat-tailed ...