A group of passionate lizard scientists have published a guide to the dozens of species of Anolis: small, brightly-coloured tree lizards related to iguanas. Colombia holds more than 75 species of ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: A. carolinensis –chicken synteny map reveals synteny of reptile microchromosomes but dissimilar GC and repeat content.

Sexual dimorphism may increase the ecologically relevant variation within a community when sexes play ecologically differentiated roles. Sometimes, the ecological differences between sexes can be as ...

The creature is small, somewhat furtive and green. Sometimes it’s brown. It has a voracious appetite for insects and spiders but is completely harmless to people. It clings to walls and screens and ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a mysterious Cuban anole Benjamin Hack A CT scan reconstruction of USNM 5095 that ...

The Georgia Tech-led study captures two lizard species adapting in response to competition. The study provides some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action. A Cuban brown anole (Anolis ...

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing researchers to account for human activity in even their most basic ecological models. When Matthew Helmus was about eight years old and ...

Biologists have reported the discovery of a new lizard in the Dominican Republic, strengthening a long-held theory that communities of lizards can evolve almost identically on separate islands. The ...

Sometimes, evolutionary selection can happen within a single generation of a species, research now shows. In response to a new predator, lizards on several Caribbean islands underwent selection first ...