Bangkok, nine o'clock in the morning. The tropical heat is slowly settling over Thailand's capital like a damp towel.

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 ...

Hunger pangs shape the foraging behaviours of brightly coloured tropical lizards that live in the hot, semi-arid landscapes of south India, a team at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru has ...

Anthony studies how Silver Key anoles keep up with destructive weather. On the Turks and Caicos Islands, animals have a far greater ability to adapt to a changing world than we thought. Anthony Herrel ...

CORAL GABLES — Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden may look serene at first glance, but beneath the resplendent orchids and majestic banyans, two invasive lizards are waging a turf war. The war started ...

As we enter the first full week of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring five tropical waves. No tropical activity is expected over the next two days, ...

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 ...

Enyalioides feiruzae is a colourful, highly variable new species of lizard discovered in the upper basin of the Huallaga River in central Peru. The authors, having searched for amphibians and reptiles ...

Lizards, with their extraordinary variations, have helped transform what ecologists thought possible in a single species. Boasting more than 7,000 different types, the reptiles are found around the ...

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