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

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

Two Tenerife lizards (Gallotia galloti) are basking. The image on the left is in human-visible colors and although the male at the top is more colorful than the female at the bottom, he is still ...

This is a new species of stream lizard from the genus Potamites. These aquatic lizards forage in streams in the cloud forest from 900 to 2000 meters elevation. Their ability to operate at low ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s Cerrado is among the world’s most biodiverse savannas, covering two million square kilometers (772,204 square miles), nearly a quarter of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Forest patches in and around oil palm plantations are crucial for the survival of Asian water monitor lizards, a generalist species that usually ...