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.

Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow later. While this is a feat of evolution, sometimes regeneration can go wrong, ...

If a cat corners a gecko, the little reptile has one last trick. It twitches its tail, snaps it off, and sprints away while the still-wiggling tail distracts the hunter. Scientists call this move ...

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Injuries are a part of life. When humans get hurt, our wounds heal, but scars remain and lost body parts never return. In the animal world, things can be very different. Some animals can grow back ...