Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in which a lizard voluntarily detaches its own tail. While this ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A lizard the size of a German shepherd once roamed Myanmar, a new fossil analysis reveals. The lizard, one of the largest ever known, ...

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in semideserts in East Africa. An Instagram post from venueearth features this ...

With a GoPro and some patience, biology professor Lindsey Swierk discovered a Costa Rican Anolis lizard in 2019 deploying a bubble horn on its snout underwater. The reptile wasn’t preparing for battle ...

The Basilisk lizard is an amphibious reptile that hails from the tropical areas of Central and South America and has earned the reputation of being able to walk on water. It has also been known as the ...

Since classifications have existed, wall lizards have been known to exhibit a diversity of throat colors, a phenomenon that remained stable until now. Currently, this palette is diminishing at an ...

A lizard the size of a German shepherd once roamed Myanmar, a new fossil analysis reveals. The lizard, one of the largest ever known, has been dubbed Barbaturex morrisoni in honor of The Doors' singer ...