Urbanization has introduced man-made substrates like metal rods and plastics into anole habitats. So, how does this shift in the ecosystem affect the locomotion of anole lizards that rely on the in…

Anole Annals

19.01.2025

SICB 2025: Nesting Environments’ Impact on Growth – Anole Annals

The local nesting environment that anole eggs experience—temperature, substrate type, or moisture content of the soil—can be important to embryonic development. However, there is a gap in research…

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18.01.2025

Anole Bites Help Us Rediscover Rensch’s Rule – Anole Annals

What Rensch (really) found there Rensch’s rule is one of the great macroevolutionary patterns studied by evolutionary biologists. It describes the positive association between male-biased sex…

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17.01.2025

The Andes Are a Driver of Physiological Diversity in Anolis Lizards – Anole Annals

When I was an undergrad student back in Colombia, I was trying to decide what to do for my thesis. In Colombia—or at least at my alma mater, Universidad Icesi—it’s mandatory to complete a thesis to…

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17.01.2025

Los Andes como Motor de la Diversidad Fisiológica en los Anolis – Anole Annals

Cuando era estudiante de pregrado en Colombia, estaba tratando de decidir qué hacer para mi tesis. En Colombia—o al menos en mi alma mater, la Universidad Icesi—es obligatorio hacer una tesis para …

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15.01.2025

Third Mexican Amber Anolis Lizard Discovered – Anole Annals

Read all about it in the Journal of Herpetology: Abstract: Pre-Pleistocene fossils of Anolis lizards from the mainland of the Americas are exceedingly rare: only two specimens referred to a single…

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11.01.2025

Anolis Lizard Research Paves the Way for Advances in Treatment of Human Prostate Cancer – Anole Annals

The key sentence: “As a newly minted urologist in 1988 I saw male patients with challenging sexual problems. I was curious about testosterone (T) therapy (TTh) due to my prior research restor…

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07.01.2025

Anoles of South America Part 3: Introduced Anoles – Anole Annals

In North America, especially in places like Florida, invasions of introduced species have revealed novel insights into the competition between species as well as the formation of non-analog species…

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04.01.2025

When Two Lizards Meet for the First Time, Scientists Witness Evolution in Action – Anole Annals

By way of Georgia Tech: Georgia Tech-led study captures two lizard species adapting in response to competition. The study provides some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action. In S…

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23.12.2024

Anoles at SICB 2025! – Anole Annals

The annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is almost here! This year’s meeting will take place in Atlanta, Georgia from January 3-7, 2025. Excitingly (al…

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23.12.2024

Remarkarble Recovery of the Endangered Lizard Anolis nubilus on the Island of Redonda – Anole Annals

From the pages of Popular Science. Efforts to save Anolis nubilus have been reported previously on Anole Annals and Colin Donihue’s website. Population of nearly extinct lizard grows 1…

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18.12.2024

Anoles of South America Part 2: Diversity South of the Andes – Anole Annals

In a previous post, I reviewed the diversity of Anolis lizards north of the Andes in South America. In this post I continue on that theme with a review of the diversity of anoles in the Amazon and …

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13.12.2024

Rare Anoles Featured in BioBlitz Trailer! – Anole Annals

How many anoles can you find?

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02.12.2024

Research on the Lizard Wars of South Florida – Anole Annals

from the front page of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, above the fold! The lizard wars of South Florida help reveal how evolution works By Bill Kearney | South Florida Sun Sentinel PUBLISHED: Novem…

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01.12.2024

Bubble-Breathing Anoles and an Interview with Lindsey Swierk – Anole Annals

When I started my blog, The Adventures of a Young Naturalist, I was just 10 years old, writing about whatever captured my curiosity. Fast forward to today, and here I am, celebrating the 50th post …

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23.10.2024

Etymologies of All Anoles – Anole Annals

Collecting reptile names is one thing, but it’s a different thing to figure out what these names actually mean. At the Reptile Database we have collected the etymologies of more than 11,000 reptile…

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08.10.2024

Anoles of South America Part 1: Diversity North of the Andes – Anole Annals

Although anoles are much more well studied and understood in the Caribbean and United States, there is a decent amount of diversity of these lizards throughout South America as well. In consultatio…

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05.10.2024

Profile Photos of Green Anoles Needed – Anole Annals

Hello fellow anole enthusiasts! I’m reaching out because I’m in need of some specific anole photos for my research. I’m currently wrapping up my dissertation on the diversification of the Ano…

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16.09.2024

Through Local Eyes: Unveiling the Biology of Anolis biporcatus with Citizen Science – Anole Annals

Written by Wagner Chaves-Acuña and Diego Salas-SolanoRecent fieldwork at the stunning Veragua Rainforest Reserve in Costa Rica’s Caribbean region has brought to light fascinating new insights about…

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05.09.2024

Diet Notes on Beautiful Blue Knight Anole – Anole Annals

Read all about it!

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03.09.2024

Anoles Provide Ecosystem Services – Anole Annals

Hard to imagine a more important service than this! Miami resident Julie Katz provides the details: “When I walked out of my condo building one night this past spring to walk my dog I encount…

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09.08.2024

Non-native Herpetofauna of Aruba: the Art and Science of Documenting Species Invasions – Anole Annals

It was late December 2018. My partner in work and life, Matt, and I were headed back to Curaçao to conduct some follow-up sampling. We had recently completed a field season in Curaçao where we had …

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07.08.2024

Mississippi Kite Eats Green Anole – Anole Annals

From Twitter

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07.08.2024

Lanceolated Monklet Eats a Slender Anole – Anole Annals

Read all about it in Herpetology Notes.

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05.08.2024

How Do Body Color Changes Affect an Anole’s Conspicuousness to Conspecifics and Predators? – Anole Annals

Rojo A, & L Swierk. 2024. How does rapid body color change affect the conspicuity of lizards to their predators and conspecifics? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78: 78. Written by A…

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30.07.2024

Limited Morphological Differences of Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) between Their Native Cuban and Invasive Florida Range – Anole Annals

The ubiquity of Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) in Florida means that they are constantly on my mind. Given the proposition that rapid evolution may be important to invasive species success, I was cur…

Anole Annals

19.07.2024

What Happens to Anoles in Hurricanes? – Anole Annals

Researchers have thought of putting anoles in experimental wind tunnels. Perhaps this is the next best evidence? Or maybe this was a setup? Either way, we can see the classic anole response …

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15.07.2024

A Tale of Many-Tailed Anoles and Many Other Tails – Anole Annals

A dozen years ago, Jonathan Losos explained in these pages how lizards sometimes end up with multiple tail tips, a phenomenon known as tail furcations. My student Tim Baum and I recently published …

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13.07.2024

Help The Reptiles of Ecuador Get Published! – Anole Annals

Hear about what’s need here. And here’s the story behind the book.

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11.07.2024

Forbes Promotes New Colombian Guide to Anoles – Anole Annals

from the pages of Forbes: How Do You Tell Colombia’s Bright, Zany Anole Lizards Apart? Andrew Wight Updated Jul 9, 2024, 10:27am EDT A group of passionate lizard scientists have published a guide t…

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22.06.2024

Following the Expansion of Anolis sagrei in Ecuador – Anole Annals

While reading reports on the colonization events of the brown anole and its impacts on local fauna, I never thought I would have the chance to see this lizard, so interesting from an ecological poi…

Anole Annals

12.06.2024

Introducing the illustrated Field Guide to the Anolis Lizards of Colombia – Anole Annals

Hey fellow Anole lovers! We are a group of passionate Colombians who are absolutely fascinated by Anolis lizards. You know, those charming little reptiles with their vibrant dewlaps and incredible …

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08.06.2024

Getting Anole Research “Out There”: New Book on Anole Lizard Research for Schoolkids – Anole Annals

I enjoyed visiting with anole researchers for my book “The Lizard Scientists” so much that I wanted to give nonscientists an example of the hard work it takes to learn about how Natur…

Anole Annals

21.05.2024

Have Invasive Anoles (and Basilisks and Agamas) Been Commercialized? – Anole Annals

Subrata Das writes: The area of my interest is the commercialization of invasive species for leather, meat, hair, fur, bristles and by-products. Of late I am researching invasive anoles, agamas and…

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13.05.2024

Mapping Anole Operative Temperature with Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – Anole Annals

A lot of us have been there…. setting up what seems like endless 3D anole replicas, often in the tropical heat, messing around with countless iButtons (which are a nightmare to get out of the repli…

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29.04.2024

Little Jamaican Twig Anole Fends off Attack by Much Larger Grackle with Open-Mouthed Dewlap Display – Anole Annals

Biologist Damion Whyte reports from Jamaica: On April 11, 2024, at 10:50 am, Mrs. Lisa Bowman Lee was at her garage in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. She saw a Greater Antillean Grackle (Quisca…

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27.03.2024

Hurricanes Shape Puerto Rican Anole Distributions – Anole Annals

The Caribbean’s history of tropical cyclones (e.g., hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions) is well-known, and a number of studies have quantified how anole populations differ befo…

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17.03.2024

New Article on Anolis roosevelti and the Question of Its Survival – Anole Annals

We’ve had a number of posts in the past about the enigmatic A. roosevelti, last seen alive in more than 90 years ago. Here’s an interesting summary of the species and how its specter ha…

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16.03.2024

Lizard Diving Champions: Trading Heat For Safety Underwater – Anole Annals

From the pages of Binghamton University’s In the fascinating world of semi-aquatic lizards, the anoles have emerged as the scuba-diving champions, capable of staying submerged for over 16 min…

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12.03.2024

Field Drawings of Anoles in the Dominican Republic – Anole Annals

When I was a kid, my favorite thing to do was go outside with my rainbow zebra-stripe notebook and draw any living thing I could find. Often, especially for the animals, I would include little comm…

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SICB 2025: Impact of Urbanization on Anole Locomotion – Anole Annals

SICB 2025: Nesting Environments’ Impact on Growth – Anole Annals

Anole Bites Help Us Rediscover Rensch’s Rule – Anole Annals

The Andes Are a Driver of Physiological Diversity in Anolis Lizards – Anole Annals

Los Andes como Motor de la Diversidad Fisiológica en los Anolis – Anole Annals

Third Mexican Amber Anolis Lizard Discovered – Anole Annals

Anolis Lizard Research Paves the Way for Advances in Treatment of Human Prostate Cancer – Anole Annals

Anoles of South America Part 3: Introduced Anoles – Anole Annals

When Two Lizards Meet for the First Time, Scientists Witness Evolution in Action – Anole Annals

Anoles at SICB 2025! – Anole Annals

Remarkarble Recovery of the Endangered Lizard Anolis nubilus on the Island of Redonda – Anole Annals

Anoles of South America Part 2: Diversity South of the Andes – Anole Annals

Rare Anoles Featured in BioBlitz Trailer! – Anole Annals

Research on the Lizard Wars of South Florida – Anole Annals

Bubble-Breathing Anoles and an Interview with Lindsey Swierk – Anole Annals

Etymologies of All Anoles – Anole Annals

Anoles of South America Part 1: Diversity North of the Andes – Anole Annals

Profile Photos of Green Anoles Needed – Anole Annals

Through Local Eyes: Unveiling the Biology of Anolis biporcatus with Citizen Science – Anole Annals

Diet Notes on Beautiful Blue Knight Anole – Anole Annals

Anoles Provide Ecosystem Services – Anole Annals

Non-native Herpetofauna of Aruba: the Art and Science of Documenting Species Invasions – Anole Annals

Mississippi Kite Eats Green Anole – Anole Annals

Lanceolated Monklet Eats a Slender Anole – Anole Annals

How Do Body Color Changes Affect an Anole’s Conspicuousness to Conspecifics and Predators? – Anole Annals

Limited Morphological Differences of Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) between Their Native Cuban and Invasive Florida Range – Anole Annals

What Happens to Anoles in Hurricanes? – Anole Annals

A Tale of Many-Tailed Anoles and Many Other Tails – Anole Annals

Help The Reptiles of Ecuador Get Published! – Anole Annals

Forbes Promotes New Colombian Guide to Anoles – Anole Annals

Following the Expansion of Anolis sagrei in Ecuador – Anole Annals

Introducing the illustrated Field Guide to the Anolis Lizards of Colombia – Anole Annals

Getting Anole Research “Out There”: New Book on Anole Lizard Research for Schoolkids – Anole Annals

Have Invasive Anoles (and Basilisks and Agamas) Been Commercialized? – Anole Annals

Mapping Anole Operative Temperature with Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – Anole Annals

Little Jamaican Twig Anole Fends off Attack by Much Larger Grackle with Open-Mouthed Dewlap Display – Anole Annals

Hurricanes Shape Puerto Rican Anole Distributions – Anole Annals

New Article on Anolis roosevelti and the Question of Its Survival – Anole Annals

Lizard Diving Champions: Trading Heat For Safety Underwater – Anole Annals

Field Drawings of Anoles in the Dominican Republic – Anole Annals

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