How a biological version of rock-paper-scissors determines if lizard colors are maintained or lost

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

This Diminutive Reptile Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...
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New Study Explains Lizard Colors Through the Rock-Paper-Scissors Game

Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...
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Lizard mating strategy resembles rock-paper-scissors

The side-splotched lizard (*Uta stansburiana*) is a common reptile found in California, United States. During spring, the ...
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Saving the lizards: Breeding and releasing horned lizards to revive their habitat

KENEDY, Texas — "We couldn't wait to get home, change our clothes and go play with the Horned Toads," says Lisa Yaklin. She grew up in Kenedy, Texas... now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of ...
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Study reveals mechanism used by tegu lizard to raise own temperature

In 2016, researchers supported by FAPESP had shown that tegu lizards reach higher temperatures than the burrows they inhabit in spring. This new study has found a physiological explanation for the ...
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Heat has deadly effect on lizards' breeding

When it comes to the hazards of global warming, it may turn out that lizards in burrows are the canaries in the coal mine. In a study to be published Friday in the journal Science, an international ...