Since the invention of electric lighting, artificial light at night (ALAN) has become a defining, and evolutionary novel, feature of human-altered environments especially in cities. ALAN imposes ...

Australian lizards are attracted to females with the brightest orange patches -- but preferably not too large -- on their underbelly, according to research. Lake Eyre dragon lizards are found ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Large clutch size is unambiguously an ancestral state in reptiles. However, females of several lizard lineages lay just one or two eggs per ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The reproductive biology of reptiles encompasses a wider range of strategies than is often assumed in general accounts of the group. Alongside species that deposit shelled eggs in terrestrial nests or ...