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Catching a monitor lizard

An up-close encounter with one of nature’s most fascinating reptiles — learning about monitor lizards while safely catching and studying one in the wild. Susie Wiles gets in trouble for saying what ...
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3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a typically uncooperative ...
The New York Times

‘Pirate Lizards’ Can Get Around on 3 Legs

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to thrive. Trilobites Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 ...
The Conversation

3‑legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

Jonathan Losos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. James T. Stroud does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...