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Severed Gecko Tails Have a Mind of Their Own
Even after they’re no longer connected to a lizard brain, gecko tails can flip, jump and lunge in response to their environment — and may even be able to evade predators. Researchers have known for...
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New Giant Lizard Discovered in the Philippines
Scientists couldn’t see the lizard for the trees. But now they’ve tracked down and named Varanus bitatawa, a skittish reptile that’s hard to spot even though it grows up to 2 meters long and sports...
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Lizard Camouflage Confuses Males About Gender
PORTLAND, Oregon — The recent evolution of camouflage among lizards in the powdery dunes of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument can lead to some misunderstandings when some males choose to make...
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Video: Secrets of Swimming in Sand Revealed
Using a lizard, a snaky robot and computer simulations, researchers have captured the secrets of swimming through sand. Physicists filmed the movements of sandfish lizards and snake-like robots as they...
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All-Female Lizard Species Created in Lab
Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard, mimicking a process that has happened naturally in the past but has never been directly observed. “It’s recreating the events that lead to new...
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Global Warming May Make Reptiles Smarter
Tests of an Australian lizard raise the possibility that climate change could make some reptiles smarter.
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Darwin Was Right: Islands Have More Species
Ecologists have found some of the first evidence that island biodiversity is crucially different from that of the mainland. The work may impact everything from the study of evolution to conservation...
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New Lizard Species Look Like Evil Dinosaur Hybrids
With spiky spines and gleaming red eyes, two newly described species of wood lizard look a bit like stegosaur-evil velociraptor hybrids.
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