The most prevalent colors of animals in nature are brown, black, and gray. These colors are important for protection and visual communication. Brown helps wild animals camouflage themselves as they ...

Florida has dozens of nonnative lizard species that are bigger, faster and stronger than native species. They have teeth, and some have bad attitudes. Here’s a look at which ones can actually… ...

Brown University student Alex Shieh is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on rising costs at elite universities and administrative roles at Brown.

What makes the Knight Anole’s color-changing abilities particularly remarkable is the speed of transformation—they can shift from brilliant green to deep brown in less than a minute when stressed or ...

A newly published study from the University of Florida IFAS examined native green anoles’ response to development and invasive brown anoles.

The brown anole is found naturally in the Bahamas, Cuba and the Swan Islands. It is one of two introduced species – the other being the greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) – that ...

The anoles of Lizard Island, clockwise from top left: Cuban knight anole, Hispaniolan bark anole, American green anole, Cuban brown anole, Puerto Rican crested anole. Neil Losin/Day's Edge Prods.

What the secret lives of lizards tell us about evolution Scientists are studying natural selection in real time on a small Florida island.

Brown anoles, said Melissa Miller, an invasion ecologist at the University of Florida, “may unwittingly be helping humans by absorbing the mosquito bites, and decreasing the transmission of ...

The crested anoles spent more of their time living in trees, and were found to perch higher up on average than the brown anoles. The latter lizards, meanwhile, adapted to spend more time on the ...

In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action.