A recent lizard invasion shows how quickly evolutionary change can occur when the competition for food and space gets fierce. On a group of small islands in Florida, native green lizards were pushed ...

Florida’s brown anole lizards aren’t big or toxic, so their brawls seldom get attention on social media. Video screengrab Two of Florida’s least threatening reptiles are getting laughs on social media ...

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. Here we ...

Faced with competition from an invading species, a type of lizard in Florida took just 20 generations – about 15 years – to evolve feet better suited to climbing trees, a new study says. Biologists ...

A new study of lizards in countries struck by hurricanes suggests cataclysmic weather can reshape entire species. An anole lizard in a wind experiment by Dr. Colin Donihue of Washington University in ...