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 ...

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 ...

When you think of a lizard, you probably think of a scaly reptile with a tail and four visible limbs. The thing is, not all lizards have legs. These lizards, called glass lizards because their tails ...

Lizards and snakes are a key component of most terrestrial ecosystems on earth today. Along with the charismatic tuatara of New Zealand (a “living fossil” represented by a single living species), ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Scientists at Tulane University made a discovery! Lead-resistant lizards are roaming around New Orleans! Their studies show that the lizards here have an unprecedented amount of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) — 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 ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...