A rare lizard species in Colorado reacts to stress-inducing loud noises by eating, a study found. Researchers studied the Colorado checkered whiptail, an all-female lizard species, in 2021. Noise ...

Overeating isn’t just for stressed-out humans, it seems. According to a new study published in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, it’s also the preferred coping mechanism of a certain ...

Lizards exposed to loud noise from overflying helicopters and fighter jets engage in stress eating and spend less time basking in the sun. To facilitate the study, undertaken in 2021, US army pilots ...

Over the past several years scientific technology has advanced tremendously. Although most of the advancements have proven to be beneficial in their own right, there are consequences to all ...

A new study revealed that U.S. military flyovers make lizards overeat. A U.S Marine Viper helicopter does a flyover at the Bowen airport on July 22, 2019 in Bowen, Australia. Exercise Talisman Sabre ...

Lizards may be small, with only a single hearing bonelet compared to our three, and without earflaps, but their hearing is typically good. Most lizards can hear frequencies between 100 and 5,000 Hz ...

The lizard is surrounded. She darts beneath a spiky shrub, a towering figure in a wide-brimmed hat looming over her. Corey Roelke shouts for someone to put down another glue trap. Edita Folfas swiftly ...

"By examining thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms distributed across the genomes, we will be able to tell once and for all if Dixon's whiptail is a different species," said Corey Roelke, a ...

Researchers have discovered one way that asexually reproducing organisms maintain variation in their DNA. Female whiptail lizards can actually double their own chromosomes during meiosis, according to ...

In the Chinati Mountains of western Texas lives a rare lizard. Commonly known as Dixon’s whiptail, the fast-moving reptile measures about 8 to 12 inches in length, is gray in color with white or ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Out in western Texas, there's an extremely rare lizard called the Dixon's whiptail. The fast-moving reptile – which measures about 8 to 12 inches in length and is gray in color with ...