For millions of years, three colors of wall lizards lived in harmony. Now, a new, aggressive green lizard is destroying this ...

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Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around the globe as temperatures rise and habitats change. The word "adaptation" is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has ...

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Neotropical anole may look simple, but it belongs to an incredibly diverse group of lizards. There are more than 400 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word "adaptation" is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

Tiny neotropical anole lizard stands out with one very unusual feature that is its prominent little nose. Resting calmly in ...

What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as "lost species." We do not know if they've gone extinct, or if it's simply that nobody has ...

The scientists were eating from at restaurant in Vietnam, when their curiosities were sparked as they wondered why all the lizards appeared to be female. The lizard species they found has now been ...

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is once again being saluted in the scientific community, with a new lizard species being named after the musician. Per ReptilesMagazine.com, researchers in Peru ...

The urge to chow down during moments of high stress apparently transcends species. A study published late last month found that Colorado checkered whiptails respond to loud noises and related ...