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

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

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

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 ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...

Biologists have long treated the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient inheritance, passed down and occasionally ...

What factors drive diversification in species groups with wide distributions and high morphological disparity? Pavón-Vázquez et al. used an extensive morphological and phylogenetic dataset to ...

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 ...

Free radical theory predicts that the unavoidable production of reactive molecules as a by-product of the respiratory transport chain will pathologically affect organismal function and fitness and ...

From three morphs to one: Across 220 populations, the pattern is consistent: where "Hulk" arrives, yellow and orange throat ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...