Bright green lizards cling to tree trunks in neighborhoods across South Florida. These reptiles are Cuban knight anoles, large arboreal lizards originally from Cuba. Decades ago, they appeared mainly ...

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 ...

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A male brown anole lizard (Anolis sagrei) displays its eye-catching dewlap. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

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 ...

Recently, on a cold, sunny morning, I picked up a flowerpot and was pleased to find a brown, torpid lizard curled beneath it. At first the lizard’s coloration looked like a bad bruise of blotchy brown ...

Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects’ more obscure targets — and how even a tiny, ...

Visit any streambed in Costa Rica’s San José Province, and you’re sure to find an abundance of lizards known as anoles scampering across and between rocks, dozing on mossy patches or lounging among ...

It flashed across the walkway like a lightning bolt, so fast that Bob Thomas had to do a double take. In that split second six months ago, he knew they had finally arrived. “I’d been waiting for them ...

The ubiquitous brown anoles that you’ve probably seen skirting around the nearest bush or tree are not only quick little roach killers, a recent study reveals that they are unaffected when exposed to ...

Actually, those 6- to 8-inch reptiles I bought weren't chameleons at all, even though some references call them "American chameleons." They are really anoles (Anolis carolinensis), sometimes called ...

MIAMI — Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects’ more obscure targets — and how even a ...