Scientists have shown that losing a leg is not a catastrophe for lizards! Many so-called pirate lizards are thriving.

Kinsey Brock is hunting lizards. In a desert garden at San Diego State University (SDSU), she carries a long stick with a string lasso at one end to try to snare one. Finally, she does. It’s a male.

Now, the results of their work suggest that limb loss is common among lizards—and that these “ three-legged pirates ” can run ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of lizards inhabiting the island of New Guinea boasts one of the most exotic traits of any animal: green blood. And scientists have been trying hard to figure out what ...

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to ...