Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several lizard species can rapidly shed their tails to distract and escape from pursuing predators, a trait called autotomy (AFP ...

Monitor lizards are often confused with common house lizards. At first glance, both have long bodies, sharp claws and ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. has discovered the mechanism that allows lizards to maintain a tail during normal activities and ...

Lizards are famous for losing their tails, but perhaps the bigger question should be: How do their tails stay on? The answer may lie in the appendage’s internal design. A structure of prongs, ...

Skinks are lizards — lesser-known relatives of the familiar green anoles so common here in the Lowcountry. As a group, skinks (family Scincidae) are among the most widespread of all lizards, found on ...

It's not really news that lizards can regrow tails -- but what is big news is for the first time in 250 million years, a lizard regrew a "perfect" tail with the help of stem cells, and USC researchers ...

Anole lizards can achieve a rare 2-tailed structure under specific physiological conditions. The blastema creates a distinct structural risk during the regeneration window. A partial injury often ...

Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can regenerate a lost appendage. But in lieu of the original tail that includes a spinal column and nerves, the ...

Salamanders and lizards can both regrow their tails, but not to equal perfection. While a regenerated salamander tail closely mimics the original, bone and all, a lizard’s replacement is filled with ...