A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, the U.S.’ busiest fossil fuel region. The dunes sagebrush lizard ...
The Chuckwalla is a stocky, flattened lizard native to the arid regions of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It has a habit of expelling salt when it sneezes, according to a zookeeper at the ...
Desert lizards, like chuckwallas, face harsh conditions with salty food and little water. To combat this, they've evolved a unique adaptation: sneezing salt. Specialized nasal glands filter excess ...
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Scientists warn of growing crisis threatening desert wildlife: 'If we can better understand … we can better anticipate'
New findings are showing that as our planet warms, desert lizards face a real energy crisis. According to an article from ...
How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...
We desert dwellers enjoy a huge diversity of native reptiles, especially in our open spaces, with an intriguing array of lizards present during the warm seasons. Some of them move lightning-fast, ...
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Understanding community assembly is a fundamental goal of ecology and evolutionary biology, because it provides insight into how a given landscape changes in a synergistic fashion. With the current ...
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