Lizards possess a remarkable survival strategy where their tails detach and continue to wriggle, distracting predators and allowing the lizard to escape. This ability, controlled by nerves within the ...

When biologist Kenro Kusumi opened the strange package in his mail, he found a pickle jar containing ethanol and a seemingly deformed alligator tail. At his Arizona State University lab, Kusumi ...

A new study suggests that a single genetic mutation helps explain why monkeys have tails, while apes and people do not. By Carl Zimmer For half a billion years or so, our ancestors sprouted tails. As ...