There’s a lot to be jealous about when it comes to lizards. Some can climb walls, some are ridiculously good at hide and seek, they’ve got tails, and – perhaps coolest of all – many can ...

Lizards, when confronted by hawks or sadistic children, have a neat trick for escaping: they can lose their tail and then regrow a new one. Scientists now think they have the "genetic recipe" for ...

Salamanders and lizards can both regrow their tails, but not to equal perfection. While a regenerated salamander tail closely mimics the original, bone and all, a lizard’s replacement is filled ...

At the site of detachment, stem cells in the lizard’s body proliferate and migrate to rebuild the tail. This process involves the regrowth of the spinal cord, blood vessels, and nerves.

The University of Southern California bioengineer studies how lizards regrow their tails, with the goal of one day inducing regeneration in humans. Thomas Lozito began investigating amphibians and ...

as our tissue tends to scar - preventing regrowth. Given what they learned, the team tested whether they could recreate the regenerative process in lizard limbs, which unlike tails do not grow back.

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 ...