Spring is in the air in Florida, and our local lounge lizards are looking for a date to the spring dance.These ravishing reptiles use their brightly colored dewlap, or throat fan, to entice the lad… ...

The little guys and ear rings. Anoles and curly-tailed lizards: You can spot 4- to 8-inch long anoles in almost any neighborhood in South Florida.The green ones are native and tend to stay in ...

This photo provided by Jesse Borden shows a native green anole lizard in Alachua County on July 9, 2020. Borden is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Florida researching the native green anole ...

Anole populations living on islands off the coast of Florida took just 15 years to grow larger, stickier toe pads for climbing when confronted with non-native brown anoles, which prefer the ground.

But Stuart sees the brown anole's rampant success as a warning, especially as other exotic lizards try to make Florida their home. He points out that South Florida is under siege by tegu and ...

The brown anole lizard, also invasive to Florida, has been in the state at least 100 years. Anoles are a beloved treat for mosquitoes that can transmit deadly human pathogens, like the West Nile ...

An adult female Psorophora ciliata feeds on a human and a brown anole spreads its gullet, technically called a dewlap. Researchers in are looking at how a turf war between lizards in Florida ...

The brown anole, a nonnative lizard, has grown to be a common sight in Florida. However, it’s possible that its population is now declining, due to the arrival of Peters’s rock agama ...

University of Florida researchers are studying how the rise of a new invasive lizard and the decline of another one could potentially raise the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.

Two Florida anole lizards are getting laughs on social media for spending 30 minutes battling through a screen, video shows. Florida Watch two goofy lizards try to fight each other — through a ...

In many areas, the anole has disappeared, and the redheaded agama are now basking in the sun. While neither lizard is known to carry disease that mosquitoes can contract and then pass on to humans ...