A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. has discovered the mechanism that allows lizards to maintain a tail during normal activities and then to release it when they need to avoid predators. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes using different types of microscopy to study lizard tail anatomy. Animangsu Ghatak, with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, has published a Perspectives piece describing the work by the researchers in the same journal issue.
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Source: Phys.org