Lizards are some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal world. Fast, colourful, and surprisingly clever, they have a range of survival skills that often go unnoticed. One of the most ...

Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in which a lizard voluntarily detaches its own tail. While this ...

Despite its intimidating name, Moloch horridus—better known as the thorny devil—is actually a small desert lizard found in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...