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 their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival strategy in which a lizard voluntarily detaches its own tail. While this ...

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.