Florida has dozens of nonnative lizard species that are bigger, faster and stronger than native species. They have teeth, and some have bad attitudes. Here’s a look at which ones can ...

It’s almost as if it had Florida surrounded. The native range of the Northern Curly-Tail Lizard includes Cuba, the Caymans and the Bahamas. The IUCN lists the lizard as a species of “least ...

It all started in October 2023, when a team led by Natalie Claunch, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, stumbled upon a rather rotund northern curly-tailed lizard. At first glance ...

But scientists are noting an influx of invasive lizards in our neighborhoods, like the curly tailed and rainbow varieties. “Florida is the Ellis Island of exotic animals and this is especially ...

Researchers at the University of Florida and the Florida Museum found a record-setting lizard in Cocoa Beach. The northern curly-tailed lizard had been feeding near a grease bin at a pizza ...

Courtesy of Natalie Claunch When Natalie Claunch and her colleagues plucked the portly northern curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus carinatus) from the site of a beach-side pizza shop in Florida ...

Northern curly-tailed lizards (Leiocephalus carinatus) are native to the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands; they were introduced in southeastern Florida in the 1940s, when a Palm Beach resident ...

After a steady diet of pizza grease and sand, a lizard in Florida recently broke the record for largest crap relative to a living organism's body size. As recently published in the Herpetological ...

That’s because a team of University of Florida herpetologists found a bulbous Northern curly-tailed lizard outside a pizza restaurant in Cocoa Beach with quite a characteristic. A “tremendous ...

Anoles and curly-tailed lizards: You can spot 4- to 8-inch long anoles in almost any neighborhood in South Florida. The green ones are native and tend to stay in trees while the Cuban brown anoles ...