Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in which a lizard voluntarily detaches its own tail. While this ...

Monitor lizards are often confused with common house lizards. At first glance, both have long bodies, sharp claws and ...

When danger strikes, humans usually have two choices — run or fight. But in the wild, some animals have figured out a third, much stranger option: drop part of their own body to survive. It’s called ...

Curtin research into abnormal regeneration events in lizards has led to the first published scientific review on the prevalence of lizards that have re-generated not just one, but two, or even up to ...

When attacked by a predator, this lizard performs a shocking act of survival known as autotomy, violently detaching its own ...

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, Vol. 78, No. 5 (September/October 2005), pp. 828-838 (11 pages) Abstract Tail autotomy, the self‐induced tail separation ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. has discovered the mechanism that allows lizards to maintain a tail during normal activities and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in ...

Research into abnormal regeneration events in lizards has led to the first published scientific review on the prevalence of lizards that have re-generated not just one, but two, or even up to six, ...