A small lizard with a wheat-colored tongue, Diploderma bifluviale, has been discovered and named a new species that's already ...

What if you picked up a lizard and realized there was something more under its skin? The scales of the ocellated lizard form labyrinthine patterns of black and green. This species probably evolved its ...

Diploderma bifluviale, a tiny new species of mountain lizard, was discovered in the valleys of the upper Dadu River Basin in ...

A small lizard in the Mojave Desert has helped to finally confirm an evolutionary process proposed more than 100 years ago. While most of the side-blotched lizards in the region are adorned with tan ...

As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed. It settled on some plants and fell asleep. But the night would not be a restful one. “Our student ...

Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

There’s a particular type of lizard that changes the color of its spots as it ages — and researchers have just discovered the mathematical rules that govern this peculiar metamorphosis. In fact, one ...

The color of T-shirts people wear affects escape behavior in western fence lizards, according to a new study. The color of T-shirts people wear affects escape behavior in western fence lizards, ...

Good moms make sure their kids eat well. Lizard moms only get one chance to do that; in most species, their mothering ends when they lay their eggs. So their one and only chance to be a good mom is to ...

Skin color patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among colored cells that obey equations, say investigators. Researchers report that a lizard acquires its adult skin color by ...

UCLA researcher Breanna Putman noticed something odd when she went out in the hills around Los Angeles looking for lizards to collect for study. She was wearing a bright red t-shirt. "They would just, ...