Geckos and lizards may look similar, but they are not exactly the same. All geckos are a type of lizard, but not all lizards are geckos. Geckos have some special features like sticky toe pads to climb ...

Spanish scientists learned that warmer conditions scramble the DNA inheritance patterns in lizards that live in Madagascar and Australia, which makes it harder for these animals to pass healthy genes ...

The University of Texas at Arlington team will use her tissue to study her genome and, hopefully, prove once and for all that the Dixon’s whiptail is its own species. The team members believe the ...

Lizards that once dwelled in forests but now slink around urban areas have genetically morphed to survive life in the city, researchers have found. The Puerto Rican crested anole, a brown lizard with ...

What Is a Uromastyx Lizard? Uromastyx is a genus of African and Asian lizards. They are commonly called spiny-tailed lizards or dab lizards. There are 13 different species of lizard under the ...

Staff at a zoo near Birmingham have been left baffled by a miraculous 'virgin birth' in their lizard house. A female casque-headed iguana, native to Mexico and Central America, has produced eight ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, marked one of Earth’s most dramatic mass die-offs. Before this event, the planet thrived with dinosaurs, ...

For the rose-bellied lizard of Mexico and Southern Texas, not all body parts are created equal. In some male lizards, the left testis has evolved to fill with melanin, so it becomes darker than the ...