Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Evolution is a long, slow and continuous experiment where ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...

JASON: BECAUSE WE HAD SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES YESTERDAY, WE WANTED TO BRING YOU THE SCIENCE OF IT AGAIN THIS MORNING. YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN THOSE THINGS RUNNING AROUND YOUR YARD. THEY ARE LIZARDS ...

Caribbean Anolis lizards exhibit a complex suite of ecological, morphological, and behavioral traits that allow their specialization to particular microhabitats. These microhabitat specialists, called ...