The western fence lizard seems like a pretty regular lizard, until you find out that its blood can cure Lyme disease in ticks ...

Virgin births sound like science fiction, but many species rely on them when conditions become extreme. Researchers have ...

Don Pedro Island State Park floats like a mirage off Florida’s Gulf Coast – a stress-dissolving paradise that somehow remains underappreciated while visitors flock to the state’s more commercialized ...

It was another exciting postseason week in Arkansas, with several players helping get their teams to the brink of playing for a championship. Also, readers can now vote on who they think should be the ...

Winter in Florida means more time outdoors, and possibly more exposure to tick-borne diseases. But the news isn’t all bad: ...

Guests at a Virginia motel were stunned when they set eyes on a six-foot alligator just casually toddling outside their rooms ...

Could this mean that the next evolution in pet ownership could be raccoons? Possibly, but it more than likely will not be the ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

The study appears in The American Naturalist with the wonderful title ‘Pirates of the Caribbean (and Elsewhere): Three-Legged Lizards and the Study of Evolutionary Adaptation’. The original idea was ...

One day, Jonathan Losos found himself trying to capture a lizard on a research trip near the Bahamas. He's a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis. JONATHAN LOSOS: It was a wily ...