Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...

Lizard tail regeneration represents a remarkable example of epimorphic regeneration in amniote vertebrates, offering insights into tissue repair processes that contrast sharply with the scarring ...

Lizards are remarkable creatures, admired for their agility, vibrant colours, and unique defence strategies. One of their most fascinating abilities is autotomy, the self-amputation of the tail to ...

Lizards are known for losing and regrowing their tails due to injury. Now, we are learning that ability to turn normal cells into new tissue types could potentially help those with arthritis. I toured ...

Losing the tail to survive. In neurons, the lizard’s strategy, losing the axon to be safe, could prevent cell death. Scientists at Harvard Medical School have observed that certain toxins activated ...