Who do some lizards have exotic blue tails? They’re super attractive to your eye, but does it work the same way for other predators out there that might see those attractive colors? A new study ...

Young lizards of many species often have a vibrantly blue tail that’s also detachable. That way, when would-be predators attack, their attention is diverted towards the expendable body part that can ...

MUSKEGON, MI – Here’s something Sheriff Dean Roesler doesn’t read in the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office briefing notes everyday: “The lizard has been removed from the building.” The briefing notes ...

Have you ever stepped outside your house and seen a lizard with a blue tail scurry across your porch? Chances are it was a five-lined skink, a reptile that spends a lot of its time around houses and ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Hanging around our parks (or your house) may be a few lizards; here in Indiana, we are home to at least six. We have the six-lined racerunner, five-lined skink, broadhead skink, ...

The rainbow-splashed tails of lizards fade with age, a costume change that is a consequence of different feeding behaviors in juveniles versus adults, new research suggests. Juvenile lizards actively ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KTVU) - Thieves who likely thought they were just stealing a duffel bag in downtown San Jose ended up got more than they asked for: Inside the bag, were four pythons and a specialty ...

Juveniles of numerous lizard species have a vividly blue-colored tail that likely serves to deflect predator attacks toward the detachable tail rather than the lizard's body. Now researchers have ...

Retired botany professor Harry Shealy from Aiken, asked me if I was familiar with a recent scientific paper on the topic of Lyme disease and lizards, specifically why cases of Lyme disease are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. — A Blue Springs man is ...

A rarely seen lizard with a "vivid blue tail" has shocked a local tourism operator with a dream sighting in remote Far North Queensland. A wildlife tour guide says the sighting happened in Cape York ...

Neon blue-tailed tree lizards are perfectly happy scurrying from branch to branch in their arboreal homes, but it wasn't clear whether they simply leaping between branches or glide. Researchers ...