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 Jamaican Anolis opalinus has different perch height characteristics depending on locality. Toward the center of the island, around Mandeville, A. opalinus characteristically perches low, being ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Most previous studies of clinging ability in Anolis lizards have focused on how toepads adhere to smooth, flat surfaces; yet lizards in nature ...

Anolis lizards have a thing or two to teach humans about love -- or in scientific speak, sexual selection -- at least when it comes to territoriality. Decades of behavioral research on the lizard's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr. Simone Blomberg from The University of ...