Florida’s latest invasive species is a 4-foot-long South American lizard with a taste for eggs that threatens the Everglades’ ground-nesting animals. Laura Roberts has always loved reptiles, so she ...
The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive ... by mating with a male and laying eggs. Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called ...
The lizards are all female and parthenogenetic, meaning their eggs develop into embryos without fertilization. But before the eggs form, Baumann’s team discovered, the females’ cells gain ...
This lizard is one of the slowest moving lizards on the island. You can only find it in Sri Lanka, and then only in a few areas including the cloud forests in Horton Plains, Hakgala and the Knuckles ...
MIGRATION: The flat-tailed horned lizard is nonmigratory. BREEDING: Mating takes place in spring; clutches of eggs are laid in late spring and early summer, with clutch size ranging from three to 10 ...
deposit eggs within nests and enter hibernation burrows by September. This strategy is believed to reduce resource competition between parents and hatchlings and allow young lizards to obtain more ...