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 – ...

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 ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

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

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 ...

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.

This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, ...