Many reptiles excrete solid uric acid crystals instead of liquid urine, a water-saving adaptation that could hold clues for human medicine. If you’ve never cared for a reptile, you might be surprised ...

After millions of years of evolutionary isolation, Madagascar developed an unparalleled array of wildlife, and recent research has uncovered an unsung ecological hero: the lizard. Though often ...

We see lizards almost every day– on walls, near lights, or hiding in corners. Most of the time, we don’t even pay attention ...

New research has revealed how more upright limb postures helped ancient reptiles overcome the biomechanical constraints of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a ...

Small lizards in New Orleans have an “unprecedented” tolerance for the toxic heavy metal. How are they even alive? The brown anole (Anolis sagrei) also known as the Bahamas anole was native to the ...

New research shows that despite losing limbs, some lizards are able to thrive. One day, Jonathan Losos found himself trying to capture a lizard on a research trip near the Bahamas. He's a professor of ...