Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feel like you’ve stepped into a rerun of “Game of Thrones” when you venture outdoors in South Florida these days? It’s not your ...
After a steady diet of pizza grease and sand, a lizard in Florida recently broke the record for largest crap relative to a living organism’s body size. As recently published in the Herpetological ...
Humans love pizza. This is a universally acknowledged truth (if you disagree... I'm sorry for you). And just as universal is our love for bread, sauce, and cheese, so to is our shared understanding of ...
A super-constipated Florida reptile has broken the record for the largest mass of feces ever discovered in a living animal — relative to its size, that is. The chunky curly-tailed lizard had been ...
Be grateful Florida lizards don’t wipe after pooping, or we’d really have a toilet paper problem. That’s because a team of University of Florida herpetologists found a bulbous Northern curly-tailed ...
As our temperatures have increased, so have activity levels of our lizards — both native and introduced. One exotic that’s making its brazen reappearance is the aptly named curly-tailed lizard ...
The state of Florida spends millions of dollars annually controlling invasive plants on public lands. But plants are not the only living things to invade our shores. It is estimated that Florida is ...
They may not get as much press as the pythons or the iguanas, but chances are you’ve seen a lot more of the Northern Curlytail Lizard. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ...