Technically there is no limit to how many additional tails can grow from an existing tail Dr Damian Lettoof “Lizards' tails are designed to regenerate when the tail vertebrae breaks along a ...
When threatened by a predator, many lizard species can shed their tails—a phenomenon known as autotomy. The tail detaches along specialized fracture planes within the vertebrae, a defense ...
By contrast, asexual reproducers—some 70 vertebrate species and many less ... the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers ...
Some scaled up living lizards and according to these estimates, the dinosaurs were some 60 metres long. Owen was sceptical of these massive sizes. So, he measured individual vertebrae and estimated ...