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

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

Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...

Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

Kinsey Brock is hunting lizards. In a desert garden at San Diego State University (SDSU), she carries a long stick with a string lasso at one end to try to snare one. Finally, she does. It’s a male.

"By examining thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms distributed across the genomes, we will be able to tell once and for all if Dixon's whiptail is a different species," said Corey Roelke, a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Lizard biologists in the Caribbean have observed a fascinating phenomenon: different lizard species across different islands appear to share ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of lizards inhabiting the island of New Guinea boasts one of the most exotic traits of any animal: green blood. And scientists have been trying hard to figure out what ...

Reptile eggs are an interesting area of study, but what makes the distinction between snakes and lizards regarding their eggs ...