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 ...

While hiking in Northern Nevada, Cecilia and I have had the opportunity to observe the three species that reside here: the desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos), the greater short-horned ...

Also extraordinary are the lizards’ evolutionary adaptations in the country’s driest environment. “Most lizards we have don’t need to drink water,” Walker said.

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.

These adaptations must have been independent. The fence lizard and the whiptail are the most closely related of the pair, but even their last common ancestor still lived at least 175 million years ...

A new species of ancient lizard is discovered in Utah. The lizard, named Bolg amondol, lived 75 million years ago. It was ...

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

The study illuminates the mechanics of not only adaptation ... when presented with the challenges of desert life in White Sands, each lizard species arrived at the same solution in a slightly ...

For a moment, I thought I was looking into a mirror.An old and weathered face was staring at me.Snapping back to reality, I realized I was face to face with one of nature’s unique desert ...

The creature was a recently hatched Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos). The relatively large spines that are large and sharp on the head of an adult horned lizard were mere nubbins on ...

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, ...