Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "They're not there," he said. "It seems like the species is now extinct." Yarrow's spiny lizards may be extinct in the Mule ...

Winter has long served as a season of stillness, a biological pause, for hibernating animals. When that pause disappears, the consequences may be harder to detect than shifting seasons or changing ...

Desert lizards are facing a 'cost-of-living' squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature, which ...

A combination of deforestation and climate change could put most of North America’s lizard species at risk for health problems and population decline, a recent analysis found. The study, in Nature ...

A student saw an elusive animal sleeping on a trail in Malaysia and discovered the first female Drogon’s false garden lizard ever recorded. Photo from Zijia Hong, shared by Evan S. H. Quah As the ...

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As the evening sun trickled through the forest in Malaysia, an elusive lizard searched for a bed. It settled on some plants and fell asleep. But the night would not be a restful one. "Our student ...