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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tried-and-true Ising model can describe how scales color-switch as the lizard ages.

Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...