Imagine you are running away from someone. They grab your hand to stop you. You wriggle and your hand pops off, allowing you to run away. That would be pretty weird, but there are animals – like ...

Lizards are famous for losing their tails, but perhaps the bigger question should be: How do their tails stay on? The answer may lie in the appendage’s internal design. A structure of prongs, ...

Scientists from the Keck School of Medicine at USC say they have published the first detailed description of the interplay between two cell types that allow lizards to regenerate their tails. Their ...