The chunky curly-tailed lizard had been feasting on a steady diet of pizza grease, sand and insects, clogging her innards with a T-Rex-sized turd, according to a report published in the ...

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 ...

University of Miami biology professor and researcher estimates that the curly-tailed lizard, like this one catching some rain atop a Kendall-area backyard shed in August, increased 22-fold in ...

Tail-shedding, known to scientists as caudal autotomy, is a common anti-predator defense among lizards. When attacked, many lizards jettison the wriggling appendage and flee.

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 ...

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 ...

"It must have been a very uncomfortable situation for the poor lizard." Typically found in Cuba, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, Northern curly-tailed lizards are invasive to Florida ...

Ecologists spent six years running a series of evolutionary experiments, observing the lives of brown anoles, green anoles and predatory curly-tailed lizards. The results could impact how ...