Feel like you’ve stepped into a rerun of “Game of Thrones” when you venture outdoors in South Florida these days? It’s not your imagination. There are more lizards of a distinctive appearance and size ...

They may not get as much press as the pythons or the iguanas, but chances are you’ve seen a lot more of the Northern Curlytail Lizard. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ...

The state of Florida spends millions of dollars annually controlling invasive plants on public lands. But plants are not the only living things to invade our shores. It is estimated that Florida is ...

Be grateful Florida lizards don’t wipe after pooping, or we’d really have a toilet paper problem. That’s because a team of University of Florida herpetologists found a bulbous Northern curly-tailed ...

As our temperatures have increased, so have activity levels of our lizards — both native and introduced. One exotic that’s making its brazen reappearance is the aptly named curly-tailed lizard ...

A super-constipated Florida reptile has broken the record for the largest mass of feces ever discovered in a living animal — relative to its size, that is. The chunky curly-tailed lizard had been ...

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