Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...

Lizards possess a remarkable survival strategy where their tails detach and continue to wriggle, distracting predators and allowing the lizard to escape. This ability, controlled by nerves within the ...

It’s no tall tale. An Argentinian lizard has set a record when it comes to regeneration: it has regrown six tails following an injury. Many lizards can regenerate their tails after being injured or ...

If the ability of some animals to regrow lost tails isn’t weird enough, a lizard has been found with three new tails in the place of one. Spotted in June in the Metohija region of Kosovo, the adult ...

Ecologists have answered a question that has puzzled biologists for more than a century: What is the main factor that determines a lizard's ability to shed its tail when predators attack? University ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues have answered a question that has puzzled biologists for more than a century: What is the main factor that determines a lizard ...

When being chased and nipped at by a scary predator, lizards will often lose their tails in a process called autotomy. Like a chicken with its head cut off, the tail will then flop around by itself ...