The omni-presence of curly-tail lizards in much of South Florida can be blamed on several things, including pet owners, the sugar industry and even a zoo escape.

A curly-tailed lizard has crossed over to the Elysian Fields and into the stuff of legend. For it was Homer who once wrote, “Any [bowel movement] might be our last.

Florida has dozens of nonnative lizard species that are bigger, faster and stronger than native species. They have teeth, and some have bad attitudes. Here’s a look at which ones can ...

It all started in October 2023, when a team led by Natalie Claunch, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, stumbled upon a rather rotund northern curly-tailed lizard. At first glance ...

A curly-tailed lizard in the middle of a cockroach (Hemiblabera pabulator) meal. Curly-tailed lizards eat both lizards and anoles, but are exclusively ground-living.

Invasive curly tailed lizards, African rock agamas population in Miami and South Florida connected to weather, unwanted pets, says UM researcher.

Northern curly-tailed lizards are native to the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and Cuba, but were intentionally introduced to Florida in the early 1940s to combat sugar cane pests.

While conducting research on beaches in eastern Florida, a group of herpetologists stumbled upon a startling discovery: a very chunky female curly-tailed lizard.. The scientists assumed the female ...

This isn't the first curly-tailed lizard with pervasive poop problems; Claunch and her colleagues have found three other individuals with fecal masses that were 30% or more of their body weight.

The curly tailed lizards increased 22-fold in Miami-Dade between 2017 and 2022, according to Christopher Searcy, an associate professor of biology at the University of Miami College of Arts and ...

Over more generations, the persisting threat of the curly-tailed lizards will drive the evolution of shorter and shorter legs in the anole population.

Researchers at the University of Florida and the Florida Museum found a record-setting lizard in Cocoa Beach. The northern curly-tailed lizard had been feeding near a grease bin at a pizza restaurant.