MIAMI - It's a South Florida phenomenon that draws amusement from across the country — when temperatures drop below a certain ...

We often see the results of evolution, but not the process directly. Now, scientists have been treated to front row seats of ...

The green iguana isn't native to the Sunshine State. So how did this invasive lizard get there and become the state's menace ...

Iguanas have been seen eating gardens, getting into pools and even finding ... the state banned pet owners from any future possession of iguanas. The giant lizards have almost no natural predators in ...

Incidents like a bare-footed man wrestling one on a Florida highway reveal how these animals can unexpectedly disrupt daily ...

James Stroud, of Georgia Tech, speaks with research assistants in the lizard lab at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens in Coral Gables. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel) “Before the ...

My favorite part was sneaking up on them and catching them by hand,” Timothy Russell, 8, of White City, said with a smile.

On the rare occasion, the temperatures in South Florida drop to the mid-to-low 40s for about 8 hours or more. This is enough time for iguanas to become incapacitated. The iguanas aren't usually dead ...

As habitat is drowned and degraded, urban development will prevent the lizard from moving to higher ground across roughly half its range. “We know that climate change and sea-level rise will transform ...

In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time ... a Cuban brown anole habitat at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in 2018, the two were competing for similar habitats ...