Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed. It settled on some plants and fell asleep. But the night would not be a restful one. “Our student ...

One of the most commonly seen lizards in the Southern states is the green anole, also known as North American green anole or Carolina anole. (Its scientific name is Anolis carolinensis.) Although more ...

Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

Male lizard color may result from female preference. The anole lizard’s dewlap — a flap of skin that hangs beneath its chin — plays an important role in species recognition, territorial defense and ...

A small lizard in the Mojave Desert has helped to finally confirm an evolutionary process proposed more than 100 years ago. While most of the side-blotched lizards in the region are adorned with tan ...

If you've seen paint product commercials lately, then you may have seen some talking lizards picking out paint colors and watching their bodies turn into the same color. Even though this is not ...

The work suggests that populations of the gliding lizard, Draco cornutus, have evolved extendable gliding membranes, like wings, which closely match the colours of falling leaves to disguise ...

Lizards, and perhaps other reptiles, may be more clever than we realize. In a new study, tropical lizards devised creative ways to get at a hidden treat of dead larvae, remembered them and adapted ...

The color of T-shirts people wear affects escape behavior in western fence lizards, according to a new study. The color of T-shirts people wear affects escape behavior in western fence lizards, ...