Lizards are quite famous for their ability to voluntarily cut off and sacrifice their tail in order to escape with their lives. But for some types of lizards, that isn't the only thing they can shed.

Remains from a 95-million-year-old marine creature with nubs for legs is clarifying how some lizards shed their limbs as they crept through evolutionary time and morphed into slinky snakes. Described ...

Fossil of the tiny prehistoric lizard Vellbergia bartholomaei, an over 200 million-year-old specimen scientists believe may fill in the gaps in the evolutionary history of reptiles. (Sobral et al. / ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. has discovered the mechanism that allows lizards to maintain a tail during normal activities and ...

A special issue of Austral Ecology this month is celebrating the legacy of an internationally renowned South Australian ecologist, whose work inspired a new generation of scientists and launched a ...

Question: We saw one of those little green lizards sunning on a railing at the Aquarium. Its skin was falling off. Was it sick or something? Answer: It sure could have appeared that way, but chances ...