It all started in October 2023, when a team led by Natalie Claunch, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, stumbled upon a rather rotund northern curly-tailed lizard. At first glance ...

Despite being a fan burying itself out of sight, the researchers were able to determine that A. amethysta doesn’t stray far ...

Why then is it that some baby lizards sport eye-catching tails that are a spectacular color of blue? Shouldn't they be decked ...

The green basilisk lizard is also called a plumed or double ... including their long, whip-like tail. Males have distinctive, high crests on their heads and backs, which they use to impress ...

What They Are & Why They're So Important From their long, swirling tongues to their quick, erratic movements, you may be ...

With its cryptic coloration and flat body, the flat-tailed horned lizard is capable of disappearing on the desert floor. When a predator threatens, the lizard may run a short distance and then stop ...

But there’s a twist in the case of the genus Aspidoscelis, the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

Animals have evolved all manner of methods to evade danger. For one lizard species living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, their unique escape tactic involves a makeshift oxygen tank that ...

It can be challenging to engage someone from a distance. Draco lizards, however, have an interesting technique of performing upper body workouts to get the attention of their potential mates.

Reptiles are astonishingly diverse, with extraordinary adaptations such as a tiny lizard in Costa Rica that has evolved a way to “scuba dive,” according to new research. The diving anole lives ...

DESCRIPTION: This lizard is small — roughly 3.4 inches from snout to vent — and very flat and wide with a long, broad tail and a dark stripe running down the middle of the back. Six long, horn-like ...

"Critter safaris" play out along an eco-trail winding from just outside Jungle Jam's door through a scrub brush environment along which children might see colorful birds, native orchids, or curly ...