Lizards are an ancient group of reptiles home to thousands of living species and many more in the fossil record. Whether you're interested in lizards with multiple tails, a six-foot-long lizard terrifying a Florida family or the 240-million-year-old "mother of all lizards," Live Science has stories for you with the latest lizard news, articles and features written by our expert team of writers and editors.
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Iguanas sailed one-fifth of the way around the world on rafts 34 million years agoAncient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research suggests.
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Labord's chameleon: The color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 monthsLabord's chameleons are only found in Western Madagascar and have developed a live fast die young life cycle to cope with the extreme environmental conditions.
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Short-horned lizard: The inflatable 'horny toad' that squirts toxic blood from its eyesThis little lizard can fire blood up to 5 feet from its face, has spiky horns and inflates itself to choke predators.
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'Scuba-diving' lizards breathe underwater by wearing air bubbles on their noses — just like in a cartoonScuba-diving lizards use bubbles to stay submerged in water for long periods of time.
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Thorny devil: The spike-covered lizard that sucks water from sand through its skinThorny devils have a plethora of defenses against predators, including a fake head and a weird jerky walk.
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Watch chameleon erupt in color 'as if uttering her last words' in her final moments before deathFootage of Labord's chameleon in last moments of her short life shows her skin burst into 'chaotic technicolor patterns' — a spectacle never observed in the wild before.
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Surprise discovery of snake-like lizard feared extinct leaves scientists amazedResearchers found three species of skink in Australia they feared could be extinct, including the Lyon's grassland striped skink.
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Earless monitor lizards: The 'Holy Grail' of reptiles that looks like a mini dragonResearchers are only beginning to understand the cryptic lives of the earless monitor lizards of Borneo.
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Newly discovered Cretaceous sea monster named after world-ending Norse serpentPaleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur with "angry eyebrows" that lived 80 million years ago.
