These days, dragons are keeping Game of Thrones fans on their toes. But they are also providing important insights into vertebrate brain evolution, as revealed by the work of Max Planck scientists on ...

Sequences from 12 genomic fragments generated by genome walking were assembled into five contigs. Two contigs were eliminated from further analyses because they were generated by an incorrect ...

Two different studies published in GigaScience present the near-complete reference genomes of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps), a widely distributed species of dragon lizard common in ...

A molecular atlas of an Australian dragon's brain sheds new light on over 300 million years of brain evolution. Neuroscientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt tackled this ...

Researchers have confirmed that lizards exhibit two sleep states, just like humans, other mammals, and birds. They corroborated the conclusions of a 2016 study on the bearded dragon and conducted the ...

Reptiles are popular as pets and it is, therefore, important to understand how different aspects of housing and husbandry impact on their behaviour and welfare. One potential cause of stress in ...

Some lizards that begin developing as males will actually hatch as females if the egg is particularly warm – and now we know why. The heat triggers genes that override chromosomal sex determination.

A decades-long scientific debate is finally resolved, thanks to a naked lizard. Scientists have uncovered the link between the hair of mammals, the feathers of birds and the scales of reptiles. And ...

A molecular atlas of an Australian dragon’s brain sheds new light on over 300 million years of brain evolution “Neurons are the most diverse cell types in the body. Their evolutionary diversification ...

“Neurons are the most diverse cell types in the body. Their evolutionary diversification reflects alterations in the developmental processes that produce them and may drive changes in the neural ...