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Water anoles are remarkable creatures. Perched along the banks of steep waterfalls in the forests of Panama and Costa Rica, they're often seen bending and peering down at rushing streams below as if ...

Anole lizards can achieve a rare 2-tailed structure under specific physiological conditions. The blastema creates a distinct structural risk during the regeneration window. A partial injury often ...

Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive. By Sara Novak Water anoles, semiaquatic ...

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 ...

Researchers collected images of lizards with missing limbs from experts around the world. Pictured here: an American green anole. Tony Gamble Jonathan Losos, a lizard biologist at Washington ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a mysterious Cuban anole Benjamin Hack A CT scan reconstruction of USNM 5095 that ...

Some anole lizards have a newfound superpower: They can breathe underwater by trapping air in a bubble on their snouts. What’s more, these reptiles can stay submerged for nearly 20 minutes by ...

A new study shows how the brown anole lizard solves one of nature's most complex problems -- breathing -- with ultimate simplicity. Whereas human lungs develop over months and years into baroque ...

Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow later. While this is a feat of evolution, sometimes regeneration can go wrong, ...