Most people know that lizards can drop their tails. Fewer people know what actually happens after that or how far the biology goes. The tail keeps twitching on the ground, distracting the predator.

Monitor lizards are often confused with common house lizards. At first glance, both have long bodies, sharp claws and extended tails. When people see a small wall lizard drop its tail and run away, ...

Graduate students Jonathan DeBoer and Joshua Hallas study a species of lizard known as the Herero girdled lizard in Namibia, and recently published an observation of the lizard exhibiting tail-biting ...