A male lizard from the Pisgah Lava Flow photographed five days after collection in the field (left), and the same lizard (right) after being housed for four months in the lab on light-colored sand.

Male lava lizards are sensitive to the timing of their opponents' responses during contest displays, with quicker responses being perceived as more aggressive, a study in Behavioural Ecology and ...

Spiny lava lizards spend less time wooing mates and choose their partners more hastily when exposed to warmer-than-usual temperatures. The researchers began by testing two groups of spiny lava lizards ...

If robotic lizards can goad wild lizards into a territorial dance-off, can robots in scrubs make a human patient feel cared-for? Thanks to a tradition of trickery in animal behavior research and the ...

Male lava lizards are sensitive to the timing of their opponents' responses during contest displays, with quicker responses being perceived as more aggressive, a study suggests. Male lava lizards are ...

Side-blotched lizards in most of the Mojave Desert have tan and brown markings that blend in well with their desert surroundings. On the Pisgah Lava Flow, however, one finds a very different ...

Side-blotched lizards in most of the Mojave Desert have tan and brown markings that blend in well with their desert surroundings. On the Pisgah Lava Flow, however, one finds a very different ...

Male lava lizards are sensitive to the timing of their opponents' responses during contest displays, with quicker responses being perceived as more aggressive, a study in Behavioural Ecology and ...

The 'Baldwin effect' has now been demonstrated at the genetic level in a population of dark-colored lizards adapted to live on a lava flow in the desert. Side-blotched lizards in most of the Mojave ...