In a study forthcoming in Nature researcher Peter Baumann found that each whiptail lizard egg cells contains twice the number of chromosomes you'd expect. In the fertilized egg cell of a sexually ...

A normal Sunday dinner turned into an eggs-traordinary mystery of how a lizard of Oz found its way into the egg of a chicken. Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, was cooking Thai fishcakes for dinner when he ...

In an Australian skink, we observed the first example of both egg-laying and live-bearing within a single litter for any backboned animal. This suggests some lizards can "hedge their bets ...

A lizard in Australia appears to be capable of simultaneously laying eggs and giving birth to live babies, something that has never previously been observed by any other researchers.

A DOCTOR believes the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg could crack the mystery of a food poisoning puzzle. Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, was cooking Thai fishcakes for dinner when he found a ...