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 ...

In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action. James Stroud, an assistant professor in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After gathering data on the captured anole, the team releases it back to the wild. Neil Losin/Day's Edge Prods. Every morning in ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

This Southeast Asian lizard stretches its ribs into wings to glide between branches. Here’s how evolution bent anatomy to ...

Researchers measured natural selection in four Anolis lizard species in the wild for five consecutive time periods over three years. This long-term study in a community of lizards reveals how ...

Island environments impose unique ecological pressures on lizard populations, driving rapid and often predictable shifts in morphology, behaviour and life‐history traits. Limited space, fluctuating ...

Some colourful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

Since classifications have existed, wall lizards have been known to exhibit a diversity of throat colors, a phenomenon that remained stable until now. Currently, this palette is diminishing at an ...

Hulk lizards are eliminating long-standing color types within their species, disrupting an evolutionary system that lasted millions of years.