(PhysOrg.com) -- Kurt Schwenk is studying tongue flicking in snakes. He explains why he finds reptiles fascinating. His work has already shown why snakes have forked tongues. Now Kurt Schwenk, ...

As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago, primeval lizards scurried, unnoticed, beneath their feet. Perhaps to avoid being trampled by their ...

In a successive discrimination experiment several odours were presented to male Eumeces fasciatus on cotton-tipped applicators. The males displayed higher tongue-flick rates during a 60 second ...

Many people think a snake’s forked tongue is creepy. Every so often, the snake waves it around rapidly, then retracts it. Theories explaining the forked tongues of snakes have been around for ...

Researchers investigate how the blue-tongued skink uses a full-tongue display to deter attacking predators. When attacked, bluetongue skinks open their mouth suddenly and as wide as possible to reveal ...

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Understanding the behaviour of snakes can be both intriguing and challenging, particularly for those new to herpetology or keeping these reptiles as pets. Among their many unique traits, one behaviour ...

University of Connecticut provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago, primeval lizards ...