In proportion to their bodies, grass lizards have the longest tails of any known ... (cold-blooded animals) at the Dallas Zoo, told Live Science. For instance, long-tailed grass lizards ...

Making a list of birds with a long tail isn’t as straightforward as it seems. For example, the peacock is not on the list. Why? Because the beautiful feathers that trail behind it and that he ...

Tails aren’t just animal accessories, they usually carry specific functions, but when it comes to rays, their function has ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

By contrast, most aquatic vertebrates have a lateral line that is streamlined near the animal’s tail and only becomes complex near their head. This would help them both bury themselves to avoid ...