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

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

For this month’s Meet a SI-entist, we caught up with Kevin de Queiroz to talk about the evolution of lizard legs and the joys of unplanned discoveries Cypress Hansen The vast diversity of anole ...

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

What if you picked up a lizard and realized there was something more under its skin? The scales of the ocellated lizard form labyrinthine patterns of black and green. This species probably evolved its ...

Come to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to hear about a research adventure to the Caribbean islands and explore the mysteries of lizard evolution. Jonathan Losos of Harvard ...

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 ...

If you could rewind time and watch evolution take place all over again, would it happen the same way as it did before? This question has long puzzled thinkers like legendary evolutionary scientist ...

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.

Scientists have challenged a popular theory behind the evolution of similar traits in island lizards. Scientists have challenged a popular theory behind the evolution of similar traits in island ...