The University of Texas at Arlington team will use her tissue to study her genome and, hopefully, prove once and for all that the Dixon’s whiptail is its own species. The team members believe the ...

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A rare lizard species in Colorado reacts to stress-inducing loud noises by eating, a study found. Researchers studied the Colorado checkered whiptail, an all-female lizard species, in 2021. Noise ...

This article was written by Discover'sAndrew Moseman. Sure, creatures that reproduce asexually get to avoid some of the hangups that come with sex, but the strategy brings its own problems. First and ...

When Jurassic Park hit theaters, one of the most memorable lines came from Dr. Ian Malcolm, warning that “life finds a way.” ...

Over the past several years scientific technology has advanced tremendously. Although most of the advancements have proven to be beneficial in their own right, there are consequences to all ...

More than 40 years ago, Bill Neaves, then a young Ph.D. student, discovered how an all-female, asexual species of the whiptail lizard came to be. He found that the lizard was a cross between the ...

Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard, mimicking a process that has happened naturally in the past but has never been directly observed. “It’s recreating the events that lead to new ...

BEST, T. L., AND P. J. POLECHLA. 1983. Foods of the Texas spotted whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus gularis) in New Mexico. Southwestern Nat., 28: 376-377. Crossref ...

Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard, mimicking a process that has happened naturally in the past but has never been directly observed. "It's recreating the events that lead to new ...