In the animal kingdom, the flashiest males often have more luck attracting a mate. But when your predators hunt by sight, this can pose an interesting problem. Like many species, lizards use bright ...

Young, male lizards desperate to mate, access women and avoid attack from older males by pretending to be one of the girls, a new study says. According to the study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Scientists have documented the rare strategy where some female populations of one reptile species, the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), are actually male mimics. Here, around 70 percent of ...

Lizards visually “shout” to get noticed when they are surrounded by a busy background of moving foliage, new research reveals. Attracting the attention of a mate can be tricky for lizards that have ...

New research shows male lizards are more likely than females to be attacked by predators because the bright colors they need to attract a mate also make them more conspicuous to birds. In the animal ...