LOSOS: Lizards with longer legs usually survive better than lizards with shorter legs. And that was - just a fraction of a millimeter of leg length could make a difference between life and death. And ...

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

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

Decades ago, the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos found himself chasing a lizard around an island in the Bahamas. The ...

When we tested the three-legged lizards’ athletic performance, the results defied expectations. Some animals were clearly impaired in their sprinting capabilities, but others actually ran faster than ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Georgia Institute of Technology studied lizards with missing limbs to understand how forces of evolution and resiliency affect organisms.

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

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. — A non-native reptile is threatening the Treasure Coast, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which said Argentine black and white tegu lizard ...