Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival ...

Sometimes, the best way to avoid being eaten is to puzzle your predator. Few animals have come up with such a dramatic way of doing this as certain species of lizards, which can suddenly detach part ...

It wiggled violently in my hand. I was seven years old and accidentally pulled off the tail of my first pet lizard. I ran into the kitchen where my mother was chopping vegetables. In a calm voice she ...

If the ability of some animals to regrow lost tails isn’t weird enough, a lizard has been found with three new tails in the place of one. Spotted in June in the Metohija region of Kosovo, the adult ...

Lizards that lose and regrow their tails can go overboard and grow back more than one tail — and sometimes they sprout as many as six. Those haywire multiple tails appear a lot more often than you ...

Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can regenerate a lost appendage. But in lieu of the original tail that includes a spinal column and nerves, the ...