Lizards possess a remarkable self-defense mechanism called autotomy, where they detach their tails to evade predators. The detached tail continues to wriggle due to reflexive nerve activity, ...

A National Taiwan Normal University research team has published a paper on lizards’ autotomy rates, real predation pressures and the long-term cost of tail loss. While it was suspected that caudal ...

From lighting fires using stones and sticks to travelling to distant planets; Human Race has come a long way in its evolutionary journey. But as we look at the stars and beyond; there are still ...

It wiggled violently in my hand. I was seven years old and accidentally pulled off the tail of my first pet lizard. I ran into the kitchen where my mother was chopping vegetables. In a calm voice she ...

2005 – A federal court ruled that an earlier withdrawal of a proposed listing rule for the lizard — made by the Service in 2001 — violated the Endangered Species Act; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Reporting from Palm Springs — As the sun rose over a wind-swept stretch of desert just east of Palm Springs, Cameron Barrows tramped over a series of dunes, identifying animal tracks in the sand -- ...

The lizard has never had a good press in India. Many communities are very worried about what evil may befall if a lizard from the ceiling falls on our body. Some worry that if it falls on our head, it ...

A quirk in a bird’s hunting behavior has given scientists a rare chance to measure an evolutionary force in action in the wild. When a loggerhead shrike catches a lizard, the bird often impales it on ...

A tiny, 166-million-year-old fossil lizard unearthed in Scotland shows “evolution in action” and is helping shed light on how reptiles came into existence, scientists have said. The complete, ...