Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ancient colors. And the changes are being driven by the biological equivalent ...

Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

There’s a particular type of lizard that changes the color of its spots as it ages — and researchers have just discovered the mathematical rules that govern this peculiar metamorphosis. In fact, one ...

As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed. It settled on some plants and fell asleep. But the night would not be a restful one. “Our student ...

Two Hispaniolan lizards, Anolis distichus and A. brevirostris, are unusual in showing extensive geographic variation in the color of the dewlap, a structure used in territorial and courtship displays.

Chameleons have it easy. If they need to hide from a predator they just change their appearance, and disappear against whatever they happen to be standing on. Surrounded by leaves? Turn green. Tree ...

Skin color patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among colored cells that obey equations, say investigators. Researchers report that a lizard acquires its adult skin color by ...

Long before humans were a thing, some lizard species were finding mates using the guidelines of the human hand game, rock-paper-scissors If you live in California's Central Valley, you are probably ...

A student saw an elusive animal sleeping on a trail in Malaysia and discovered the first female Drogon’s false garden lizard ever recorded. Photo from Zijia Hong, shared by Evan S. H. Quah As the ...

Lizard scale configurations tend to evolve pretty fast, so it would take forever to trace the earliest ancestor of the ocellated lizard that first diverged from a common ancestor of a group of lizards ...