Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

Take a deep breath in. Slowly let it out. You have just participated in one of the most profound evolutionary revolutions on Earth—breathing air on land. It's unclear how the first vertebrates thrived ...

Many scientists, such as the late Stephen Jay Gould, to conclude that each group of living things evolves in its own idiosyncratic manner. But now biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have ...

This week’s Nature (April 12 issue) cover story introduces a study that explains the principle of pattern formation in the Jeweled Lacerta lizard using mathematics. Born with brownish spots on its ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered female side-blotched lizards are able to induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues. University ...

As adults, ocellated lizards (Timon lepidus) sport a convoluted pattern of black and green on their backs. Colour patterns aren’t rare in animals, but the ocellated lizard develops its labyrinthine ...

Skin color patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among colored cells that obey equations, say investigators. Researchers report that a lizard acquires its adult skin color by ...