How does a lizard that looks like a rose stem mated with a cactus suck water out of the desert? Images & Stories / Alamy The thorny devil is looking sharp. Rows of cactus-like spikes and thorns give ...

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A little Saharan lizard "swims" through desert sands by undulating its body in a series of wave-like motions, a new study finds. The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a small lizard typically about 4 ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...