Many factors can contribute to geographic color variation, including natural selection, sexual selection, and genetic drift. In squamates, phenotypic plasticity can also play an important role in ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

The side-splotched lizard (*Uta stansburiana*), commonly found in California, United States, displays striking variations in ...

A long, slender lizard moved among trees in a pinyon-juniper woodland on the Colorado Plateau, searching the accumulated debris beneath the trees for grubs, spiders, beetles or any other insects. It ...

Andréaz Dupoué, Alexis Rutschmann, Jean François Le Galliard, Donald B. Miles, Jean Clobert, Dale F. DeNardo, George A. Brusch IV and Sandrine Meylan Water conservation strategies are well documented ...

THIS subject has recently been very fully discussed by my friend, Dr. Max Braun, assistant in the zoological laboratory of the University of Würzburg. His paper, which has especial reference to the ...

A new study headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis shows that Florida is an exporter of more than just fruit and star athletes. Studying genetic variation in the common brown ...

Introduction: The evolutionary study of social behavior and the role of lizards as model organisms / Stanley F. Fox, J. Kelly McCoy and Troy A. Baird -- Variation among individuals. Introduction / ...