For 320 million years, a hidden story has been written in the skin of reptiles. Scientists have now decoded it, and what they ...

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action. James Stroud, an assistant professor in the ...

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 ...

Yale researchers have identified the oldest-known, definitive members of the lizard crown group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives. The two new species, Eoscincus ...

Since classifications have existed, wall lizards have been known to exhibit a diversity of throat colors, a phenomenon that remained stable until now. Currently, this palette is diminishing at an ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

Most people know that lizards can drop their tails. Fewer people know what actually happens after that or how far the biology ...