Anole lizards can achieve a rare 2-tailed structure under specific physiological conditions. The blastema creates a distinct structural risk during the regeneration window. A partial injury often ...

Lizards possess a remarkable survival strategy where their tails detach and continue to wriggle, distracting predators and allowing the lizard to escape. This ability, controlled by nerves within the ...

Lizards are famous for losing their tails, but perhaps the bigger question should be: How do their tails stay on? The answer may lie in the appendage’s internal design. A structure of prongs, ...

It's not really news that lizards can regrow tails -- but what is big news is for the first time in 250 million years, a lizard regrew a "perfect" tail with the help of stem cells, and USC researchers ...

It’s been a quarter century since the first European glass lizards hatched at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. And this year, decades later, those same hatchlings laid eggs of their own — for the first ...

Scientists from the Keck School of Medicine at USC say they have published the first detailed description of the interplay between two cell types that allow lizards to regenerate their tails. Their ...

Lizards are often misunderstood creatures, but their behaviors and adaptations are nothing short of extraordinary. What do lizards do to be so noteworthy? Prepare to be amazed. Lizards’ bodies are ...