Kinsey Brock is hunting lizards. In a desert garden at San Diego State University (SDSU), she carries a long stick with a string lasso at one end to try to snare one. Finally, she does. It’s a male.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At this moment, the male side-blotched lizards of the American West are engaged in dating drama beyond human comprehension. Three ...

Every identifiable group of plants and animals on Earth has a unique combination of body shapes, behaviors and ecology that distinguishes them from all others. What about the different kinds of ...

A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study documents ...

As a battle for territory unfolds between two different species of lizards invasive to Florida, a team of University of Florida scientists is trying to determine what it could mean for public health.

Lizards, with their extraordinary variations, have helped transform what ecologists thought possible in a single species. Boasting more than 7,000 different types, the reptiles are found around the ...

A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from ...

Researchers found that complex teeth, a hallmark of mammals, also evolved several times in reptiles, prompting the evolutionary success of plant-eating lizards. However, contrary to mammals their ...

*Content warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence that might be disturbing to some listeners.* Herpetologists do a lot of unique things while studying lizards—cut their toes, pump their ...

At this moment, the male side-blotched lizards of the American West are engaged in dating drama beyond human comprehension. Three different morphs of lizard, all with different colors and different ...