Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

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 ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

What if you picked up a lizard and realized there was something more under its skin? The scales of the ocellated lizard form labyrinthine patterns of black and green. This species probably evolved its ...

Come to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to hear about a research adventure to the Caribbean islands and explore the mysteries of lizard evolution. Jonathan Losos of Harvard ...

Jhan Salazar holds an anole from Colombia. Photo courtesy of M. Castañeda. If you’ve ever spent some time in the Caribbean, you might have noticed that humans are not the only organisms soaking up the ...