The new robot runs across an uneven surface in a way modeled off a zebra-tailed lizard. Image courtesy of Chen Li, Tingnan Zhang, Daniel Goldman Designing a robot that can easily move across ...

Another remarkable detail about the handsome gray, black and white western zebra-tailed lizard is the banded tail that quickly curls, flips and whips. Such movements are thought to be aimed at ...

In work to appear in The Journal of Experimental Biology, the team shows that the zebra-tailed lizard exploits the fluid-like properties of sand in much the same way. Christofer Clemente ...

When Roesler received the Sept. 4 briefing notes from a jail sergeant, he was informed a "blue-tailed lizard" that had been eluding deputies for some time had finally been caught. The sheriff ...

We compared populations of zebra-tailed lizards and western banded geckos ... In this study, we sampled four additional lizard species sympatric with U. stansburiana at the MNP to document ...

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“I have been studying reptiles for a long time and examined hundreds or maybe thousands of specimens, but this was my very first” three-tailed lizard, he said via email. The three tails are ...