If robotic lizards can goad wild lizards into a territorial dance-off, can robots in scrubs make a human patient feel cared-for? Thanks to a tradition of trickery in animal behavior research and the ...

Like dancers in a crowded nightclub, some lizards ramp up their body movements to be seen above the background chaos in order to better defend their turf. Scientists have shown how animal species such ...

A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study documents ...