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

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through ...

Florida’s iguanas are an introduced species, and they aren’t used to the chilly temperatures the state is currently ...

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Tri ...

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

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

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

Biologists studying an Australian lizard observed something no one had ever documented in a vertebrate before. A single female produced offspring through two different reproductive methods during the ...

Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

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

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...