Winter has long served as a season of stillness, a biological pause, for hibernating animals. When that pause disappears, the ...

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

One day, Jonathan Losos found himself trying to capture a lizard on a research trip near the Bahamas. He's a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis. JONATHAN LOSOS: It was a wily ...

Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...

Lizards rely on a complex system of chemical communication to mediate social interactions such as territorial defence, mate recognition and intra‐specific competition. Chemical cues, typically ...