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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Around 10 years ago an entire species of a little lizard vanished from Christmas Island. The blue-tailed skink is only a few centimetres long and as you can see, has a bright blue streak down its back ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Googie got us little kids really going. "Today," announced Mr. G., a Grace Church Camp counselor in Palisades Interstate Park 50 years ago, "you're going to see the blue-tailed skink! It's a ...

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 ...