Timothy Higham, an assistant professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, will be featured in the program “Animal Superpowers: Extreme Survivors” on the National Geographic Wild ...

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 can break off in an instant but also stay firmly attached. Scientists have figured out the microscopic structures that make this survival skill possible. By Jack Tamisiea When choosing between life ...

If this sounds a bit dry, just watch the film. And in case you're worried about the lizards' plight, rest easy: A. carolineus, better known as the green anole, can drop its tail voluntarily when ...

Sometimes, the best way to avoid being eaten is to puzzle your predator. Few animals have come up with such a dramatic way of doing this as certain species of lizards, which can suddenly detach part ...

Any kid who pulls on a lizard tail knows it can drop off to avoid capture, but how they regrow a new tail remains a mystery. Now, researchers have identified tiny RNA switches, known as microRNAs, ...

When predators attempt to strike at a moving lizard, the vivid stripes on its head and trunk redirect the predator’s attention to the reptile’s tail – the expendable part. The findings are published ...

Graduate students Jonathan DeBoer and Joshua Hallas study a species of lizard known as the Herero girdled lizard in Namibia, and recently published an observation of the lizard exhibiting tail-biting ...