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 ...

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

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 ...

Early pterosaurs — informally called "pterodactyls" — had long tails with thin ... maintain vane stiffness for flight would have also allowed the animal to use it for display purposes ...

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 ...