ReptiDay Sarasota returns Oct. 31, offering a closer look at snakes, lizards and other exotic animals while helping visitors ...

A study appearing in Behavioral Ecology shows that in male wall lizards, certain behaviors have a greater influence on the way they resolve territorial disputes than their size and coloration. While ...

A 99-million-year-old lizard tail preserved in amber offers rare fossil evidence of caudal autotomy, an escape mechanism that ...

A lizard making a dramatic escape, leaving its tail wriggling behind as it darts to safety, is an image familiar to many.

"There is no pharmacy, no medicines, none of that,” say traditional Andean healers who have sacrificed the jararanko for medicinal use for generations. But scientists say it could do more harm than ...

Scientists have used bobtail lizards to create the world's first database of "odors" from a living animal. The researchers collected bobtails—or shinglebacks as they're known in the Australian eastern ...

Native to Europe, common wall lizards are growing bigger, faster, and more resilient in Ohio. Scientists say the city itself may be driving their evolution. A Lazarus lizard suns itself on a warm rock ...

An international research group found that wall lizards use specific behaviours more than colour or physical traits to settle territorial disputes. These results deepen our understanding of the ...