For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos — delicious Latin American pastries — fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. In this ...
Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...
Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.
In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...
Research uncovered 122 cases of limb loss across 58 lizard species and revealed that these “three-legged pirates” – the rare survivors of traumatic injuries – can run just as fast, maintain healthy ...
From three morphs to one: Across 220 populations, the pattern is consistent: where "Hulk" arrives, yellow and orange throat ...
The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...
Some colourful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr Simone Blomberg from The University of ...