Blood sample collection in lizards is an important technique. This column describes techniques for sample collection from the ventral coccygeal vein and the ventral abdominal vein. The ventral ...

but a specific ingredient in the cocktail of the lizard's venom is the reason we have glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonists ...

What that advantage might be is unknown. The green comes from biliverdin, a byproduct of dying red blood cells. The lizards have it in such great abundance—20 times more than the highest concentration ...

The short-horned lizard is often referred to as a “horned ... kingdom’s most bizarre defensive mechanisms: they shoot blood from their eyes. The ominous squirting blood emanates from ducts ...