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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A meter-long, blue-tailed lizard had been stalking the Mussau Island in Papua New Guinea for 2 million years before being discovered. Not many animals live on the Pacific islands. Local animal ...

A tiny rainbow-hued lizard which all but disappeared from the wild 10 years ago has been given the run of a brand new home — its very own tropical island off the WA coast. The skink was last spotted ...

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, ...

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 ...

The blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus cyanogenys) is one variety of 10 species of spiny lizards that reside here in Texas, although it has a very limited range in this state. It can be observed in Texas ...

I’m not normally too keen on reptiles. In Indiana where I grew up, snakes were relatively rare. The first one I saw was trapped in a storm gutter, and I remember staring at it with a strange ...