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After a hurricane wiped out all the lizard species on certain islands in the Bahamas, scientists re-populated the small islands with two lizards of each kind. They then sat back and watched how those lizards evolved to get an up-close look at the Founder Effect. More »
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Using new infrared light techniques, scientists have at last been able to analyze the chemical composition of a piece of lizard skin, preserved for millions of years in dry rock. So what did these reptiles look like in pre-human times? More »
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Ready to see what the visitors from ABC's alien television series really look like without their human suits? Now you can. Check out the lizard beasts in their creepy alien glory! Spoilers ahead. More »
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It's a 1970s television staple: the scene at the end of an episode where somebody says something, and everybody laughs or deploys a cheesy grin. It just goes horribly wrong in this scene, where they're all chuckling about "pain wands." More »
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This two-headed bobtail lizard from Perth, Australia has two brains, and it consequently has trouble moving its hindlegs. But that's not its biggest problem - no, the lizard's larger head wants to devour its smaller one. Talk about self-loathing. More »
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Great news! One of the great authors of our time, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, will finally be translated to the big screen. Pinkwater sold the movie rights to his awesome novel, Lizard Music, to Tiny Dancer Films, which produced the movie Married Life. In Lizard Music, a young boy is left alone for two weeks, and sees giant lizards playing music on TV. They turn out to be alien invaders, but that doesn't explain the guy with the chicken under his hat. [Publisher's Marketplace] More »
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Brace yourselves, Battlestar fans: in real life Starbuck would probably be ugly as sin. Think more like a Ferengi, less like a supermodel. So would anyone else from the 12 Colonies, most likely. That's the implication of a new study of evolution here on Earth, which shows that natural selection can work at break-neck speeds. More »
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We mentioned earlier that V might be heading back to television. The big news is that the book that could inspire this V resurgence will hit store shelves tomorrow. But how well to you remember this show and its creator? Creator Kenneth Johnson gave us the original Bionic Woman, and we all know how that recent retread has been going. Would a new V series fare any better? Go behind the scenes with some V trivia in the list below which is rife with decades-old spoilers. More »
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Is it time to bring back V? In 1983 we had the two-part miniseries called V, then the following year they gave us V: The Final Battle, which spawned a TV series called, appropriately enough V: The Series. But it's been 20 years since we've heard from those reptilian alien invaders who pretend to be our friends. What's been happening to the franchise? Creator Kenneth Johnson thinks the time is right to adapt his novelization V: The Second Generation into a movie or a new series. [IESB] More »
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