A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter coloration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown ...

Joey D. Vieira, who was best known for starring in the iconic "Lassie" television series, passed away this week at the age of ...

and then passed the two-dimensional textile design onto his studio’s sculpture division to handcraft each individual scute — mimicking a lizard’s interlocking scales. The designer ...

Our research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field – assuming we’re successful ...

Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter colouration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown ...

Lizards are known for their wall-climbing skills ... This force is a weak attraction between molecules that happens at a very tiny scale– so small that we can’t even see it.

As the morning heat builds, we spot our first lizards: Cuban brown anoles near to the ground, and the mottled scales of Hispaniolan bark anoles just above them. Farther up, in the leafy tree canopies, ...

Researchers described the lizards as being “fawn” or “pale ... by its “deeply divergent” DNA, limbs, eyelids, scale pattern and other subtle physical features, the study said.