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 ...

Giant South American lizards are taking over Florida — just one of the latest in a slew of invasive species that have colonized the Sunshine State. Photo by Robbin Cresswell Argentine black and ...

The green iguana, the Mexican iguana, and the spinytail iguana were originally brought to South Florida from Central and South America. They're considered an invasive species and they've become more ...

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 ...

Agamas are native to Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, but invaded Florida through the pet lizard trade in 1976. Their spread was exacerbated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, when agamas either ...

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 ...

After bagging 93 of the invasive lizards, the 8-year-old White City agama hunter took his trophy on a victory lap around school, for show-and-tell in his class, and anywhere else he could find a ...