Lizard tails are pretty cool too. The chameleon’s tail can wrap around branches to help with climbing. The shingle-backed skink has a wide, thick tail that looks like its head to confuse predators.

Prairie lizards pretty common in West Texas. ... Many of the animals that I encountered as a youngster were of course collected, and I have doting memories of several lizards that resided in my room.

It's pretty impossible for a giant, flying, fire-breathing dragon to exist in real life. But dinosaur fossils and modern-day lizards show some similarities.

It sounded like a textbook urban legend. When I moved to Topeka about four years ago, I kept noticing a certain kind of lizard around my apartment. The things were pretty thick, which I thought was… ...

Peter Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer Text and photos by Peter Vankevich The Eastern glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) became an object of fascination for me when I ...

Overachieving Lizard Grows Three Tails. Found recently in Kosovo, the unusual reptile is among only a handful of three-tailed vertebrates known to science, a new study says.

A semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole produces a special bubble atop its head to breathe underwater and avoid predators on land, according to research.