In the face of a warming climate, the new research by Tulane scientists bodes poorly for the comparatively mild-mannered ...

Like most reptiles, tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) were thought to be consistently ectothermic: They can’t sustain a body temperature that’s substantially higher than the ambient temperature. But ...

A brown anole crawls along a metal pipe leading under a home in New Orleans. Researchers found that brown anoles get more aggressive as the temperature rises. (Louisiana Illuminator photo) Researchers ...

Researchers from Canada and Brazil reported last week (January 22) in Science Advances that tegu lizards behave like other reptiles for most of the year—sunning themselves to stay warm during cold ...

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 ...

Faced with a gritty landscape of metal fences, concrete walls and asphalt pavement, city lizards in Puerto Rico rapidly and repeatedly evolved better tolerance for heat than their forest counterparts, ...

Update, May 20, 2024: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it has listed the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered. “The Service will continue working collaboratively with Tribes, industry, ...