1. The importance of locomotor performance to the social status of male lizards may lie in its effect on the outcome of agonistic interactions and territorial contests. Presumably, dominant males are ...

What is velvety, red, pea-sized and can be seen scurrying across the ground in the desert Southwest after a torrential rainstorm? If you have no clue, you're not alone. According to Justin Schmidt, an ...

Neon blue-tailed tree lizards are perfectly happy scurrying from branch to branch in their arboreal homes, but it wasn't clear whether they simply leaping between branches or glide. Researchers ...

Winter aggregations have been shown to occur in wild and laboratory populations of some species of lizards. The tree lizard, U. ornatus, was observed in experimental conspecific aggregations during ...

Lizards have the ultimate quick release escape system. When in a predator's grips, they drop their tails to escape. But what price do tree dwelling lizards pay for freedom? Biologists tested the ...

For thousands of years, the green anole was Florida's only native tree dwelling lizard. But today, Miami is home to nine other species, some arriving as unwanted pets or as stowaways on cargo ships, ...