While the patterns and colors of lizards' skin are fascinating, the mechanisms behind them are largely unknown. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) studied the leopard gecko, a popular lizard ...

In reptiles, a simple temperature change can determine whether an egg develops into a male or female. This process is formally known as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), in which the sex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether landing on an uninhabited island or venturing into a darkened landscape, teams of scientists around the world headed into ...

An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of gecko in small forest fragments in southeastern Madagascar. Due to its extremely limited range, researchers say it should be ...

Scientists in Australia, Burundi, India, Uganda and Vietnam found cryptic lizards hiding in different habitats and discovered five new species of gecko. Photo from Conrad Hoskin via James Cook ...