Some lizards possess one of the most extraordinary survival abilities in the animal kingdom — the power to intentionally detach their own tail and later regrow it. After escaping a predator, ...

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 ...

As the world’s largest living lizards, Komodo dragons are some of the most fascinating and intimidating reptiles on Earth. In ...

A look at the perentie, Australia's largest monitor lizard, and the thermoregulation, habitat use, and predator pressures ...

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Some animal adaptations look like they were designed by a committee of mad scientists. The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)—Wyoming’s state reptile, also dubbed the “horny toad” ...

Researchers collected images of lizards with missing limbs from experts around the world. Pictured here: an American green anole. Tony Gamble Jonathan Losos, a lizard biologist at Washington ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

Out in the dry scrublands of the American West, a squat, spine-covered reptile spends its days nearly invisible against the sand, dust and stone. The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi ...