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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Seasonal changes in the population ecology of Anolis cupreus, a sexually dimorphic lizard, were studied over a 2-yr period in a deciduous and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers recently discovered that several species of semi-aquatic anole lizards can breathe underwater — or rebreathe — for up to 18 minutes. They observed that anoles have hydrophobic skin that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In a paper titled The erratic and contingent progression of research on territoriality: a case study (Kamath and Losos 2017, Behav Ecol ...

Anoles are typically small (3–7 in long), arboreal, insectivorous lizards found throughout the southeastern US, the Caribbean and various other regions of the western world. Approximately 300 species ...

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 ...

How do intermittent events like hurricanes impact natural selection? How do animals adapt to challenging weather? A University of Rhode Island professor has set out to track natural selection in the ...