For this month’s Meet a SI-entist, we caught up with Kevin de Queiroz to talk about the evolution of lizard legs and the joys of unplanned discoveries Cypress Hansen The vast diversity of anole ...

Come to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to hear about a research adventure to the Caribbean islands and explore the mysteries of lizard evolution. Jonathan Losos of Harvard ...

Dubbed the 'Jesus lizard,' the basilisk lizard of Central and South America possesses an astonishing ability to run across ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a typically uncooperative ...

For most animals, reproduction is straightforward: Some species lay eggs, while others give birth to live babies. But our recent research uncovered a fascinating mix between the two modes of ...

If you could rewind time and watch evolution take place all over again, would it happen the same way as it did before? This question has long puzzled thinkers like legendary evolutionary scientist ...

Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by ...

Lizards have given Johns Hopkins researchers a tantalizing clue to the evolutionary origins of light-sensing cells in people and other species. Published in the March 17 issue of Science, their lizard ...

A new anole on the island of Hispaniola confirms that ecological communities can follow predictable patterns. The anole lizards that dot many islands of the Caribbean are a natural evolutionary ...

If you could hit the reset button on evolution and start over, would essentially the same species appear? Yes, according to a study of Caribbean lizards by researchers at the University of California, ...