A super-constipated Florida reptile has broken the record for the largest mass of feces ever discovered in a living animal — relative to its size, that is. The chunky curly-tailed lizard had been ...

A greasy, sandy diet left a northern curly-tailed lizard with a belly distended by a heavy ball of unpassable poop. The mass was so large that it made up nearly 80% of the animal's body weight — a ...

Feasting on greasy pizza comes with its consequences for humans, but for a curly-tailed lizard on the eastern beaches of Florida, the results were especially crappy. The female curly-tailed lizard in ...

Be grateful Florida lizards don’t wipe after pooping, or we’d really have a toilet paper problem. That’s because a team of University of Florida herpetologists found a bulbous Northern curly-tailed ...

Nearly all of this northern curly tail’s digestion was halted by an impassable fecal mass. Courtesy of Natalie Claunch When Natalie Claunch and her colleagues plucked the portly northern curly-tailed ...

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Lizards are often misunderstood creatures, but their behaviors and adaptations are nothing short of extraordinary. What do lizards do to be so noteworthy? Prepare to be amazed. Lizards’ bodies are ...