Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

Many scientists, such as the late Stephen Jay Gould, to conclude that each group of living things evolves in its own idiosyncratic manner. But now biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered female side-blotched lizards are able to induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues. University ...

Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...

Skin color patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among colored cells that obey equations, say investigators. Researchers report that a lizard acquires its adult skin color by ...

Pattern class C of parthenogenetic Cnemidophorus tesselatus reaches its southern range limit at Sumner Lake State Park, De Baca County, New Mexico, where it is syntopic at several sites with a ...

Some lizards in the eastern U.S. have adapted to invasive fire ants--which can bite, sting, and kill lizards--reversing geographical trends in behavioral and physical traits used to avoid predators. A ...