At first glance, most lizards do not appear especially powerful, but many species possess remarkable survival adaptations that can completely change the outcome of a predator encounter. Some can ...

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

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 ...

The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.

Black rats (Rattus rattus) have lived alongside humans for millennia, making homes in our dwellings, raiding our food stores, ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

SCIENTISTS have made a cracking discovery after uncovering mysterious impressions of reptile skin from almost 300million ...

Nature can be surprising, and sometimes a little unsettling, especially when animals behave in ways that seem hard for us to ...

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...