The Australian thorny devil lizard uses its spiky skin to channel streams of moisture directly into its mouth.

Along the streams and rivers of Central America lives a lizard that appears to break one of the basic rules of physics. When a predator lunges, the basilisk lizard does not dive into the water or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the arid plains and rocky deserts of North America, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences ...

South Florida’s most famous invasive lizard is, of course, the iguana. These pests munch gardens, poop in pools, snap at pets ...

Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive. By Sara Novak Water anoles, semiaquatic ...

The lizard's vivid coloring is not decoration — it is a biological signal, switched on only when the payoff is worth the risk it carries. Along the sun-baked kopjes — the flat granite outcrops that ...

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. Here we're ...

Have you ever seen a lizard lose its tail and noticed something strange? Even after being completely separated from the body, the detached tail may continue to twist, jump or wriggle for several ...

The Italian wall lizard—a cigar-size Mediterranean reptile with a green back, mottled copper flanks, and a whiplike tail—is more or less the animal you picture when someone says the word “lizard.” ...

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to thrive. Trilobites Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 ...