This tiny, spiny lizard has a shocking secret. Scientists have finally uncovered exactly how and why its bizarre strategy ...

Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in which a lizard voluntarily detaches its own tail. While this ...

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 ...

Known as the Spiderman lizard, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is a colorful lizard that lives in semideserts in East Africa. An Instagram post from venueearth features this ...