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When it comes to studying lungs, humans take up all the air, but it turns out scientists have a lot to learn from lizards. A new study from Princeton University shows how the brown anole lizard solves ...

Several species of anolis lizards blow bubbles from their noses to breathe underwater, according to research published in the scientific journal Current Biology this month. While aquatic insects have ...

The anole lizard may be a popular pet, but here's something that not many people may know: some of the things can breathe while underwater. A new study has confirmed their ability to do so, and ...

The bubbles the anole lizards use may act as a "physical gill" that can pull oxygen from the water while accumulated carbon dioxide escapes into the water over the surface of the bubble in a process ...

Some anole lizards have a newfound superpower: They can breathe underwater by trapping air in a bubble on their snouts. What’s more, these reptiles can stay submerged for nearly 20 minutes by ...

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.

Scientists have genetically modified reptiles for the first time, to create tiny mutant albino lizards. The team used the CRISPR-Cas-9 technique to edit the DNA of the Anolis sagrei, or brown anole ...

An unusually cold winter in the US in 2014 took a toll on the green anole lizard, a tree-dwelling creature common to the southeastern United States. A new study offers a rare view of natural selection ...

Postdoctoral researcher Terry Ord says anole lizards, such as this one, create a strategy to get their message across to rivals. Lizards that signal to rivals with a visual display "shout" to get ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...