PORTLAND, Oregon — The recent evolution of camouflage among lizards in the powdery dunes of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument can lead to some misunderstandings when some males choose to make ...

Resting out in the open on rocks can be a risky business for Aegean wall lizards. Out in these habitats they have nowhere to hide and their backs, which show varying shades of green and brown between ...

The shape-shifting clouds of starling birds, the organization of neural networks or the structure of an anthill: nature is full of complex systems whose behaviors can be modeled using mathematical ...

When Domenico Fulgione placed Moorish geckos on dark surfaces, he saw what he had seen for years. These spiny, hand-sized lizards changed colour. Within an hour, their typical creamy white complexions ...

Many modern-day animals use camouflage, clever patterns of skin pigmentation, to hide from and evade predators in plain sight. About 120 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period, a small ...

Carmen Scherrer photographed a cryptic little fence lizard on a wooden fence in First Landing State Park. You don’t see these common lizards very often, perhaps because they blend in so well with ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Chameleons have it easy. If they need to hide from a predator they just change their appearance, and disappear against whatever they happen to be standing on. Surrounded by leaves? Turn green. Tree ...

June 7 (UPI) --When most of us stick our tongue out, it's to taunt or tease -- or we're at the doctor's office. When the bluetongue skink sticks out its tongue, its trying to scare away would-be ...