A greasy, sandy diet left a northern curly-tailed lizard with a belly ... according to a Florida biologist. As the lizard gulped down insects and other small reptiles near a pizza parlor in ...

It’s almost as if it had Florida surrounded. The native range of the Northern Curly-Tail Lizard includes Cuba, the Caymans and the Bahamas. The IUCN lists the lizard as a species of “least ...

Anoles in particular feed strictly on insects; Curly-tail lizards are opportunists and eat just about anything but seem to be most fond of insects and carrion. Lizard poop is generally small ...

Lizards are famous for losing their tails, but perhaps the bigger question ... brings with it increased risk of accidental loss from small bumps and snags. “It has to find the just right amount ...

The adult female curly-tailed lizard with a distended belly. Natalie Claunch While conducting research on beaches in eastern Florida, a group of herpetologists stumbled upon a startling discovery ...

Introducing a new top-predator onto islands in the Caribbean turned out to be bad news for some small tree-dwelling ... green anoles and predatory curly-tailed lizards. The results could impact ...

Jonathan Losos and colleagues at Washington University, St Louis, have found one such example in a small Caribbean ... larger predatory species, the curly-tailed lizard. Invasion of the lizards ...

A gecko’s tail works in the same way. Geckos, skinks, and many other small lizards are known for their ability to amputate their own tails when threatened by predators. The tails don’t break ...

As a candidate species, flat-tailed horned lizards are now protected under the law, which makes it illegal to kill, harm or capture the small lizards without state authorization. State wildlife ...

A tail is a handy thing to have ... Full of UC Berkeley and co-workers coaxed red-headed Agama lizards to run on an acrylic track and over a small box, which acted like a vault.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports the northern curly-tail lizard was intentionally released in Palm Beach County in the 1940s and it has been spreading ever since.