Sleep is an essential part of animal biology, yet its ecological aspects such as predator avoidance remain understudied, especially in the wild. Sleep behaviour is likely to be subject to selection ...

Semicontinuous records of diurnal body temperatures of the 250- to 500-g agamid, Amphibolurus barbatus, were obtained with a deep esophageal thermocouple. The lizard is a heliotherm with a preferred ...

Robots may one day tackle obstacles and traverse uneven terrains thanks to collaborative research analyzing the motion of lizards. The study used a slow motion camera to capture the nuanced movement ...

Researchers from China just described a new species of mountain lizard from the upper Dadu River Valley in the Hengduan mountains of Sichuan Province. Since 2018, the research team conducted numerous ...