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 ...

Hulk lizards are eliminating long-standing color types within their species, disrupting an evolutionary system that lasted ...

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 ...

This week’s Nature (April 12 issue) cover story introduces a study that explains the principle of pattern formation in the Jeweled Lacerta lizard using mathematics. Born with brownish spots on its ...

When a wildlife photographer challenged viewers of his Instagram post to “Spot me if you can,” they assumed they were looking ...