What if you picked up a lizard and realized there was something more under its skin? The scales of the ocellated lizard form labyrinthine patterns of black and green. This species probably evolved its ...

As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed. It settled on some plants and fell asleep. But the night would not be a restful one. “Our student ...

From the clown fish to leopards, skin colour patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among coloured cells that obey equations discovered by the mathematician Alan Turing. Today, ...

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 ...

A student saw an elusive animal sleeping on a trail in Malaysia and discovered the first female Drogon’s false garden lizard ever recorded. Photo from Zijia Hong, shared by Evan S. H. Quah As the ...