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Where are all the green anoles? That’s a question an Humble resident asked on Reddit, writing, “Usually by this time in the summer, my backyard is SWARMING with them.
A semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole produces a special bubble atop its head to breathe underwater and avoid predators on land, according to research.
Scuba-diving water anoles create a breathing bubble hat to help them stay submerged for long periods of time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...
Anole expert Yoel Stuart, a Harvard Ph.D. and post-doctoral researcher at UT-Austin, has studied brown and green anoles and their interactions everywhere from Florida—where they first arrived in ...
The procedure took more than a year to perfect. But in the fall of 2018, Rasys, Menke, and the rest of their team hatched the world’s first gene-edited non-avian reptile: a red-eyed albino anole ...
Organisms are evolving all the time, but most animals change too slowly for us to see their adaptations develop. That's not the case for Anolis carolinensis, otherwise known as the green anole. An ...
In a study published this week by the Royal Society, Swierk and her colleagues describe the bubble-making mechanism and how it helps the lizard to "rebreathe." Upon diving, anoles exhale a bubble ...
Using an underwater camera, Dr. Swierk first viewed the bubble appearing and disappearing atop the anole’s snout. The bubble, which forms mostly as a result of air stored in the lizard’s lungs ...
In the Sept. 1 On Gardening column, a reader expressed concern about seeing more brown anoles and fewer green anoles. Many now want to know how to get rid of the brown lizards. The shift in ...
A semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole produces a special bubble atop its head to breathe underwater and avoid predators on land, according to research.