How lizards lost their ability to regenerate neurons and salamanders didn’t remains a mystery (SN: 11/28/15, p. 12).

Study finds how lizard tails are sturdy at regular times but detach easily when needed. Findings may lead to novel designs to solve adhesion challenges in robotics and prosthetics .

Though fence lizards don’t hibernate, they become sluggish in winter, which is why these days, warmed by the sun and driven by the urge to mate, they’re once more appearing all over.

That changed with the birth of a nearly transparent Anolis lizard, the first gene-edited reptile, according to the draft of a study made public this week. Ashley Rasys, ...

A genetic analysis suggests that this parasitic worm is a close relative of Spauligodon, a gut-dwelling genus of parasite also found in these Pyrenees lizards (SN: 3/18/08).For a nematode that ...