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 ...

There’s a lot to be jealous about when it comes to lizards. Some can climb walls, some are ridiculously good at hide and seek, they’ve got tails, and – perhaps coolest of all – many can drop and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...