Sentences with phrase «green anole»

A small green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis, right) in the southern United States used to have the only game running when it came to hunting insects.

And other studies of green anoles have shown changes, too: Anoles that moved to a new island with more trees than bushes evolved longer legs, perhaps to travel greater distances, whereas anoles living in cities have apparently evolved stickier feet to cling to metal and glass.

In fact — in one of the most detailed examples of rapid evolution to date — a new study shows that just one cold snap can change the way green anoles» muscular and nervous systems respond to temperature.

Green Anoles live in warm climates throughout the New World.

Green anole customers have a different agenda: they see a lizard that costs less than ten dollars, and they like that.

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Green anoles are brightly colored lizards that can easily switch their coloration from green to brown.

The researchers speculate that the competition between brown and green anoles for the same food and space may be driving the adaptations of the green anoles.

The native lizards studied, known as Carolina anoles or green anoles, are common in the southeastern U.S..

The left hind foot of the green anole after evolution.

The first and only other anole lizard to be sequenced previously was the green anole, A. carolinensis, the only anole species resident in the U.S..

They also took a careful look at genes that code for proteins: more than 22,000 genes in the green anole, A. carolinensis, versus approximately 20,000 identified each in A. auratus and A. frenatus and 13,000 in A. apletophallus.

Over the course of just 20 generations, the green anoles have developed larger and stickier toe pads that help them navigate their higher territory, researchers report in the current issue of Science.

Reptiles, like this green anole lizard, make hair proteins, but they use them for claws instead.

The green anole (Anolis carolinensis), a lizard found in the American Southeast, is only one of many species of anole lizard.

I am guessing the most common answers to those questions are garter snake, green anole, red - eared slider and bullfrog — those are all pretty terrible choices.

Green anoles have generally short lifespans and are equally flighty and unhandeable.

- Green anoles are considered sub-tropical due to their wide and ever expanding range.

In the tank were house geckos, green anoles and long - tailed grass lizards.

Her photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations feature images familiar to the north Florida and Tennessee landscapes that are home to her family: boiling swamps and tall pines, vespid wasps and green anoles, wild horses and white clapboard houses.