For Nathalie Feiner, it was just another day in the lab. As part of her work on understanding how the common wall lizard is adapting to a changing climate, the evolutionary biologist was observing one ...

For most animals, reproduction is straightforward: Some species lay eggs, while others give birth to live babies. But our recent research uncovered a fascinating mix between the two modes of ...

Whether baby lizards will turn out to be male or female is a more complicated question than scientists would have ever guessed, according to a new report. The study shows that for at least one lizard ...

In a world first, researchers at the University of Sydney have observed a normally live-bearing Australian lizard lay three eggs and then weeks later, give birth to a live baby from the same pregnancy ...

Normally, animals reproduce by either laying eggs or giving birth to live young, but an Australian species of lizard can apparently do both in the same pregnancy. Scientists at the University of ...

Side-blotched lizard hatchling in the Baldwin Hills. Stevie Kennedy-Gold/NHMLA. When I was a roving California correspondent, one of the stories on my list that I rue never getting to was the autumn ...

A BABY lizard was hatched at a British zoo ­following an extremely rare “virgin birth”. Izzy the eastern casquehead iguana was conceived with no male involvement. She hatched from one of two ...

A newfound species of parasitic worm wiggles its way into the brains of baby lizards long before the reptiles hatch. How do the nematodes break into developing lizard brains? They sneak in through the ...

First came a slit atop an egg being unzipped like a suitcase. Then popped a snout, pointing toward its first lizard breath. Then flicked a tongue, dancing before Los Angeles Zoo reptile curator Ian ...

The Niabi Zoo says four Smallwood’s anole lizards have hatched. The zoo says Smallwood’s anoles are native to the coastal forest of eastern Cuba, and spend most of their time high up in the tree ...

The Los Angeles Zoo is celebrating a first — it successfully hatched a pair of healthy perentie lizards. The long-necked lizards are among the world’s largest, reaching more than 8 feet long and ...

Whether baby lizards will turn out to be male or female is a more complicated question than scientists would have ever guessed, according to a new report published online on June 4th in Current ...