Two studies reveal that extreme temperatures affect reptilian reproduction, with one species adapting to climate change and ...

Globally it has been observed that lizards with viviparous reproduction (retention of embryos within the mother's body) are being threatened by changing weather patterns. A new study suggests that ...

Lizards that once dwelled in forests but now slink around urban areas have genetically morphed to survive life in the city, researchers have found.

Reptiles are air-breathing vertebrates covered in special skin made up of scales, bony plates, or a combination of both. They ...

Monthly collections of the viviparous lizard Xantusia riversiana were made on San Clemente Island, California, USA. Populations on the nearby San Nicolas and Santa Barbara Islands were sampled during ...

Scientists injected CRISPR gene-editing machinery into unfertilized eggs still developing in female lizards’ ovaries.

Curiously, the whiptail lizards came to be through the fusion of two other lizard species, Baumann says. That gave it a rich genetic diversity, but without sex the lizards needed a new way to ...

Investigation of seasonal changes in the gonads of Phrynosoma douglassi indicates breeding takes place in the late winter to early spring in Arizona. Testes are at maximum sizes when the lizards ...

Do the consequences of enhanced nocturnal warmth hinder or help lizards to reproduce? According to the authors of this study, such effects are “primarily beneficial for this population of northern ...

According to a study published Sunday in Nature, egg-producing cells in a Aspidoscelis tellesata, a ladies-only species of whiptail lizard, contain double the standard genetic complement. They ...

How an Asexual Lizard Procreates | RealClearScienceIn sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms procreate—each parent provides half an offspring’s chromosomes. Over generations, this mating and ...