This lizard, with its bead-like scales and deliberate movements, holds stories of adaptation and endurance that echo through millennia. The desert is not a barren wasteland but a living archive ...

This need for heat also explains why most lizards are found within desert environments ... a moment to pause and observe their behaviors and adaptations from a distance, and relish in the thought ...

You can actually watch the lizard’s skin darken as it soaks ... The Camel Is a Living Desert Adaptation. No discussion of desert survival is complete without a mention of the camel.

Hitting the desert trails often is a Southern ... Also extraordinary are the lizards’ evolutionary adaptations in the country’s driest environment. “Most lizards we have don’t need to ...

Before we leave our discussion of the joys of summer, tribute should be paid to that miracle of climatic adaptation, the Sonoran Desert Stick Lizard. The little stretch of desert where I live is ...

All of these adaptations arose independently of one another and all of them reduce the amount of the dark pigment, melanin, in the lizards’ skin. It’s a wonderful example of convergent ...

Like the lizard, I was sitting on a boulder ... no doubt a handy adaptation when you live in the desert. Just like you on a cold morning, they enjoy absorbing the warmth of sunshine, and those ...

2007. Functional morphology of scale hinges used to transport water: convergent drinking adaptations in desert lizards (Moloch horridus and Phrynosoma cornutum). Zoomorphology 126:89‑102.

I nearly crushed it beneath my boot. A little over a week ago, I was hiking down the Bogert Trail when something very tiny scampered out from underneath my boot — just in time to avoid being ...

All of these adaptations arose independently of one another and all of them reduce the amount of the dark pigment, melanin, in the lizards' skin. It's a wonderful example of convergent evolution, ...