‘Bearded lady’ lizards raise stronger offspring
Typical female fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) sport drab brown colors, but a few of them display the shiny blue neck patches more commonly found on males. ...
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Which lizards can weather storms?
Long, strong back legs don’t help lizards survive storms such as Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria, according to new research. For the first time, researchers ...
Vertebrate pollinators are particularly vital
When it comes to wild plant production, vertebrates matter, too. A new global literature review indicates that vertebrates pollinate a big chunk of temperate and ...
Reptile atlas highlights more biodiversity hotspots
Compared to other vertebrates, reptiles have been a mystery to science, and their distribution has been less understood than that of mammals, birds and amphibians. ...
Southeastern lizards adapt quickly to extreme weather
In one of the fastest, most well-documented instances of adaptation, lizards in the southeastern United States developed a tolerance to lower temperatures in ...
Sniffing out shrubs’ significance for endangered lizards
Endemic to California’s San Joaquin Valley, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila) has been fighting extinction for the last half-century. With a little ...
Shelterwood harvest is good for lizards, bad for salamanders
A common forestry practice may be bad for salamanders, but good for lizards, according to a recent U.S. Forest Service study published in Forest Ecology and ...
Patchy shade helps lizards survive the heat
Lizards may be in even worse trouble than ecologists thought. The small, cold-blooded animals are highly sensitive to climate change, and researchers have predicted ...
Climate Change May Hurt Survival of Common Lizards
A couple of degrees of difference can make a huge difference when it comes to the survival of lizards in a changing climate, according to new research. “While a ...
Habitat Fragmentation Causes a Hot Problem for Wildlife
The negative effect some species feel from habitat fragmentations may have more to do with temperature changes than anything else, according to ongoing studies. In ...