A stingray at Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville, North Carolina, is pregnant without any mates in sight. The female ray, named Charlotte, has become an aquatic enigma, as the ...

Over the past decade, Cnemidophorus neomexicanus has become an idol for some queer people, because this species’ members are all female. Simply put, parthenogenesis is reproduction without ...

Over the past decade, Cnemidophorus neomexicanus has become an idol for some queer people, because this species’ members are all female. “There are a series of hormonal triggers that happen ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – “The aroma of green chile roasting in the fall.” Most people would qualify that scent as a New Mexico staple, but now state lawmakers are considering making it the ...

People are living, breathing creatures. Dominant feminist discourses are situated within hegemonic human exceptionalism (HHE) which, by framing the body in terms of human forms of meaning-making and ...

Scientists may be able to predict evolutionary outcomes thanks to a recent study involving a whiptail lizard. The study asks the question “how and why hybridization leads to diverse evolutionary ...

We report here a set of observations on mating behavior and female accompaniment by the whiptail lizard Cnemidophorus ocellifer in an area of Caatinga (xerophilous open forests) in the state of Rio ...

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A long slender lizard moved among trees in a pinyon-juniper woodland on the Colorado Plateau, searching the accumulated debris beneath the trees for grubs, spiders, beetles or any other insects. It ...

That species is the desert grassland whiptail. The desert grassland whiptail (Aspidoscelis uniparens) is a rather small but common lizard that has a very limited range. In fact, it has the ...