Man' lizard — a herpetologist explains how it flashes red and blue in seconds to win mates and settle rival showdowns.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This Southeast Asian lizard stretches its ribs into wings ...

The dunes sagebrush lizard, found only in the oil-rich Permian Basin, was classified as endangered two years ago.

Nearly 130 years ago, Italian explorer Elio Modigliani arrived at a natural history museum in Genoa with a lizard he’d reportedly collected from the forests of Indonesia. Based on Modigliani’s ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

Meters below the copper, sun-broiled dirt of northwestern Australia, an entire community hides in the dark. Geckos lay their eggs as centipedes and scorpions scuttle by. A snake glides deeper ...

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to thrive. Trilobites Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 ...

An eastern fence lizard basking in the sun feels a small red ant walk over its back. Not hungry, it ignores the insect. Soon there are lots of ants crawling up its legs, biting the scales that usually ...