As the days get longer and warmer, it's not just humans that are drawn out into the sunshine. Blue-tongued lizards are out and about, and it's often hard to tell if they are fighting or mating. The ...

If ancient Egyptian mummies weren’t already mysterious and intriguing enough, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week that two golden-tongued mummies—one male, one ...

Learn how these two lizards can be both alike and different with the Memphis Zoo. Learn how these two lizards can be both alike and different because of how they have adapted to their environments ...

Blue-tongued skinks are popular pets among reptile enthusiasts. They’re relatively small lizards that only grow up to 24 inches long. They’re docile and like to eat insects, fruits, and vegetables, so ...

A biological arms race has left the blue-tongued lizard almost impervious to the venom of the red-bellied black snake, scientists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Queensland’s Venom ...

This video uncovers the bold defenses that make the blue-tongued skink one of nature’s most surprising reptiles. Viewers learn how its bright blue tongue acts as a shock-display against predators. The ...

The “tongues” of South Africa’s long-tongued flies are certainly long, but they’re not flexible. So a fly has to hover at a distance to sip from a flower’s shallow nectar cup, as seen in the above ...

If you think about iconic symbols of climate change, you’ll probably picture a polar bear, emaciated, and clinging to a precariously small chunk of ice. You’re probably not thinking of a bumblebee, ...

When it comes to bee tongues, length is proportional to the size of the bee, but heritage sets the proportion. Estimating this hard to measure trait helps scientists understand bee species' resiliency ...

Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93 and had dementia. Scales's sons, Samuel and ...

With scales like armor and a tongue the color of the sky, the blue tongued skink looks like something out of a fantasy book. In this episode, we get up close with this unique reptile to uncover what ...