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 population ...

We tend to think the contours of biodiversity are well known, especially in extensively studied areas. However, this is not necessarily the case and sometimes strikingly new species are discovered ...

Researchers are asking Montgomery County residents to be on the lookout for an invasive species of brown lizard driving out its green, less aggressive cousin. Chris McMartin, executive director at the ...

Caribbean Anolis lizards exhibit a complex suite of ecological, morphological, and behavioral traits that allow their specialization to particular microhabitats. These microhabitat specialists, called ...

The green anole (also known as the Carolina or red-throated anole) is a small arboreal lizard found primarily in the southeastern US and Caribbean. It is sometimes called the American chameleon ...

Last week, watching activities at the St. Augustine Shores Wildflower Meadow, I caught sight of a quick movement on the corner fence where a very healthy clump of Fakahatchee grass cascades over the ...

Residents who have lived in this area for more than 20 years can well remember when green anole (Anolis carolinensis) were numerous. They would run across porches and display their jewel colored fans ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. High above the forest floor on the remote Colombian island of Gorgona lives a lizard with brilliant blue skin, rivaling the color of the sky.

Actually, those 6- to 8-inch reptiles I bought weren't chameleons at all, even though some references call them "American chameleons." They are really anoles (Anolis carolinensis), sometimes called ...

In January of 2006 a biological expedition uncovered four anole species in a single day. Dr. Gunther Koehler, a member of the expedition, described the discoveries as “a once in a life time experience ...