Advocates want to protect a lizard that's vanishing from Arizona's Sky Islands

The Yarrow's spiny lizard lives in a narrow band of the Mule Mountains, but its numbers are declining as temperatures warm ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Endangered Species Protections Sought for Arizona Lizard Threatened by Climate Change

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Mule Mountains population of the Yarrow’s spiny lizard under the Endangered Species Act.
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Fat AND Sassy? A Three-Legged Lizard Really Can Have It All

Decades ago, the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos found himself chasing a lizard around an island in the Bahamas. The island was little more than mound of craggy limestone the size of a baseball ...
News Tribune

Temple of Bloom is home to favorite butterflies

I remember the day quite well. I went to my Rotary Club meeting and returned to my office in the garden. I casually glanced into the garden as I entered the building. I noticed a sizable group of ...
Hindustan Times

Optical illusion leaves Reddit stumped: Can you spot the hidden lizard?

Optical illusion: A photo posted on r/FindTheSniper sparks a lively debate as users struggle to spot a cleverly camouflaged anole. Optical illusions are the all-new internet sensation, with several ...
AOL

New Orleans’ lead-heavy lizards could help scientists better grasp toxicity, evolution

A brown anole crawls along a metal pipe leading under a home in New Orleans, where Tulane University researchers found lead levels in their blood well beyond what they considered a lethal amount of ...
Gainesville

Where have Gainesville’s native green anoles gone?

From April to September of 2017, Jesse Borden was climbing trees and counting lizards around Alachua County. Sometimes, he could be found in branches on the University of Florida campus or in people’s ...
The Facts

COMMENTARY: Color-changing anole symbolizes resilience

This afternoon, while driving to The Center for Art s and Sciences, I noticed a little green lizard on the hood of my car. That poor fellow was hanging on for dear life! He started out brown but ended ...
Kansas City Star

‘Vibrant’ creatures — that can change color — are ‘cryptic’ new species in Cuba

Across Cuba, small lizards are known for their color-changing abilities, and now a new species has been identified. Irene Wright McClatchy News How can you tell two species apart? You would never ...
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Gardener captures once-in-a-lifetime photo of rare backyard visitor: 'I used to have those all over'

A gardener spotted a special visitor in their plants and turned to the internet to learn more and discovered they had a friendly, native species on their hands. In the r/gardening subreddit, the OP ...
southcarolinapublicradio

Fun with anoles

Hello, Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Our native lizard, the green anole, is a grand animal to have around your house. On warm days, you can watch them ...