In a rare bit of good environmental news, herpetologist extraordinaire Rich Glor travels to Haiti in search of a potentially extinct Anolis lizard and finds a pair of surviving populations.
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Anolis lizards, Anolis allisoni, from Cuba. A study in the journal Nature is shedding new light on how size differences between males (right) and females (left) may affect the lizard's ability to adapt to new environments.
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