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 – ...

Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...

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

Kinsey Brock is hunting lizards. In a desert garden at San Diego State University (SDSU), she carries a long stick with a string lasso at one end to try to snare one. Finally, she does. It’s a male.

Lizards are often misunderstood creatures, but their behaviors and adaptations are nothing short of extraordinary. What do lizards do to be so noteworthy? Prepare to be amazed. Lizards’ bodies are ...

From chasing geckos as a young boy in Kandy to studying crocodiles in Australia and much more, behavioural ecologist and ...

The reproductive biology of reptiles encompasses a wider range of strategies than is often assumed in general accounts of the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of lizards inhabiting the island of New Guinea boasts one of the most exotic traits of any animal: green blood. And scientists have been trying hard to figure out what ...