Have you ever stepped outside your house and seen a lizard with a blue tail scurry across your porch? Chances are it was a five-lined skink, a reptile that spends a lot of its time around houses ...

Neon blue-tailed tree lizards are perfectly happy scurrying ... At first, it didn't look as if the African lizard was gliding any better than the common wall lizard. Both animals were able to ...

Not only are these tails a bright and attractive blue, but they’re also detachable, just like the tails of most lizard species. This means that when the tail gets ripped off by a predator, the lizard ...

but its tail was bright, bright blue. It got away before I could get a picture, sadly. Nichole Coggiola, Pleasant Hill DEAR NICHOLE: I suspect what you saw was not a salamander but a young skink ...

This lizard, also known as Tiliqua rugosa, is a species of blue-tailed skink endemic to Australia. Its tail looks a bit like its triangular head, which is meant to confuse predators. Inside a pink ...

The tiger, spotted, Jefferson's, blue-spotted, and marbled salamanders are ... reaching lengths of 7-1/2 inches not including the long tail. Like the other streamside salamanders, it breathes entirely ...

Along this line are dark blue dots. These are cells, and Sanggaard likens them to a zipper. It’s possible that when the lizard wants to shed its tail, the cells secrete substances that weaken ...

Spotted in June in the Metohija region of Kosovo, the adult blue-throated keeled lizard (Algyroides nigropunctatus) had tails that measured 30, 15, and 10 millimeters in length. The freak ...

In 2015, in a study published in the journal Ecologica Montenegrina, researchers described a blue-throated keeled lizard (Algyroides nigropunctatus) from Kosovo that grew three new tails after ...

And why do you sometimes see lizards with more than one tail? How many times can a lizard regrow its tail? It's a question we put to Dr Damian Lettoof, an adjunct research fellow at the School of ...