Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...

Lizards that lose and regrow their tails can go overboard and grow back more than one tail — and sometimes they sprout as many as six. Those haywire multiple tails appear a lot more often than you ...

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, ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans. Now, a team of researchers ...

Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can regenerate a lost appendage. But in lieu of the original tail that includes a spinal column and nerves, the ...

If the ability of some animals to regrow lost tails isn’t weird enough, a lizard has been found with three new tails in the place of one. Spotted in June in the Metohija region of Kosovo, the adult ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues have answered a question that has puzzled biologists for more than a century: What is the main factor that determines a lizard ...

With its tiny, spiky body, the armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus) looks like a baby dragon and has a defensive trick that looks straight out of a cartoon. As seen in this Instagram ...

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 ...

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 ...