The urge to chow down during moments of high stress apparently transcends species. A study published late last month found that Colorado checkered whiptails respond to loud noises and related ...

A student saw an elusive animal sleeping on a trail in Malaysia and discovered the first female Drogon’s false garden lizard ever recorded. Photo from Zijia Hong, shared by Evan S. H. Quah As the ...

A team of researchers at the University of Tasmania working with a colleague from the University of Canberra has found that a species of lizard can switch from female to male prior to birth. In their ...

The June issue of Herpetologica, which you are definitely going to want to get your hands on, describes a recent study in which lady sagebrush lizards “with greater courtship experience” were more ...

Scientists have long known that some all-female species of lizard can reproduce asexually, in a process called parthenogenesis. But for the first time, researchers have created a new all-female ...

Most nature lovers know that the more colourful a male fish, reptile, or bird, the more likely it is to attract a female and to have healthy offspring. Females, on the other hand, tend to be drably ...

A lizard from Tasmania is the first non-egg-laying animal known to sometimes switch sexes before birth, depending on the surrounding temperatures. Some egg-laying fish, frogs and reptiles hatch with ...