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Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive. By Sara Novak Water anoles, semiaquatic ...

What's scaly, striped and breathes underwater like a scuba diver? Water anoles, a semi-aquatic lizard found in the tropical forests of southern Costa Rica. These green-brown water anoles can dive ...

Costa Rica is home to thousands of unique animal species, many of which captivate scientists from around the world. Among these fascinating creatures is the anole lizard, a small, semi-aquatic reptile ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos — delicious Latin American pastries — fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. In this ...

Small lizards in New Orleans have an “unprecedented” tolerance for the toxic heavy metal. How are they even alive? The brown anole (Anolis sagrei) also known as the Bahamas anole was native to the ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...