But there’s a twist in the case of the genus Aspidoscelis, the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

The vast deserts of New Mexico are home to an extraordinary array of wildlife, with one of the most fascinating being its ...

One such asexual organism is the whiptail lizard in the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and South America, which consists only of females who reproduce by parthenogenesis. They appear to be the only known ...

This professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, Austin, studies animals such as the inches-long whiptail lizard. "I'm interested in the evolution of brain mechanisms involved in ...