Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brown anole crawls along a metal pipe leading under a home in New Orleans A brown anole crawls along a metal pipe leading under ...

Scientists are eager to figure out why lead doesn't seem to affect brown anoles. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 When humans are exposed to lead, they can develop a host of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Florida is literally crawling with lizards. They're skittering through parks and yards, scampering into homes and ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Chances are you’ve seen brown lizards that run just about everywhere in the city this summer. Their scientific name is the Brown Anole and they’re fairly new residents of Louisiana. “It ...

In 2005, biologists left a pair of lizards on each of seven hurricane-emptied Bahamian islands. Within four years, all seven ...

Lizards that once dwelled in forests but now slink around urban areas have genetically morphed to survive life in the city, researchers have found. The Puerto Rican crested anole, a brown lizard with ...

On a remote group of islands in the Bahamas, the trees run thick with anoles—lithe, color-changing lizards easily identified by the vibrant fans that adorn the throats of males. Leaping from branch to ...

Some urban lizards have been hiding a heavy secret: They may be among the most lead-tolerant vertebrates on the planet. The average anole’s lead level was 955 micrograms per deciliter of blood, over ...

NEW ORLEANS — Chances are you’ve seen brown lizards that run just about everywhere in the city this summer. Their scientific name is the Brown Anole and they’re fairly new residents of Louisiana. “It ...