For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Biologists have long regarded the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient legacy, passed down and occasionally lost.

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

A myriad of colours that survived millions of years of evolution have disappeared in a short period of time. The culprit? A bright green, aggressive, and sexually dominant wall lizard that has wiped ...

Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

The changing climate is quickly pushing cold-blooded animals up against their limits. And a well-preserved fossil from the Jurassic period might help fill in some of the gaps surrounding the evolution ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but ...

In parts of Italy, Mediterranean wall lizards are starting to look surprisingly alike. Scientists from the University of ...

Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity. It is already driving local extinctions ...