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 ...

Body shape, color and behavior often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have studied this phenomenon in a specific type of large, bright ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos — delicious Latin American pastries — fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. In this ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified the oldest-known, definitive members of an evolutionary group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives. The new lizard “kings” are described in ...

For millions of years, the common wall lizard kept a fragile evolutionary balance with vibrant orange, yellow, and white-throated types that lived together in a stable ‘rock-paper-scissors’ social ...

Lizards that once dwelled in forests but now slink around urban areas have genetically morphed to survive life in the city, researchers have found, per the AP. The Puerto Rican crested anole, a brown ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For most animals, reproduction is straightforward: Some species lay ...

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 ...

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, researchers say. Stroud’s new study ...

Learn how an ancient lizard ancestor’s unique physical characteristics have shocked paleontologists. A 242-million-year-old fossil found on a beach in Devon, England, is changing what we know about ...