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Saving the lizards: Breeding and releasing horned lizards to revive their habitat

KENEDY, Texas — "We couldn't wait to get home, change our clothes and go play with the Horned Toads," says Lisa Yaklin. She grew up in Kenedy, Texas... now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of ...

This grumpy-faced lizard is under threat. Can its adorableness help save it?

As habitat loss and invasive predators decimate the Texas horned lizard population, researchers are banking on statewide ...

Nature created its own spider-man lizard, that stuns in red and blue

Discover the Spider-Man lizard, a real-life marvel of East Africa. With a fiery red head and deep blue body, this agile rock-dwelling reptile dazzles during mating season.
Sun Sentinel

How South Florida lizards are helping to reshape Darwin’s theory of evolution

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...
Phys.org

Overlooked lizards emerge as key seed dispersers in Madagascar's unique forests

After the island of Madagascar drifted away from India 88 million years ago, isolating it from all other landmasses, its flora and fauna evolved in seclusion. As these transformed into plants and ...
The New York Times

‘Pirate Lizards’ Can Get Around on 3 Legs

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to thrive. Trilobites Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 ...
insider.si.edu

Lizard social behavior / edited by Stanley F. Fox, J. Kelly McCoy, and Troy A. Baird

Introduction: The evolutionary study of social behavior and the role of lizards as model organisms / Stanley F. Fox, J. Kelly McCoy and Troy A. Baird -- Variation among individuals. Introduction / ...