Why Aren't St. Croix Ground Lizards on St. Croix?
Smithsonian scientists are working to save St. Croix ground lizards from extinction and bring them home to their namesake island.
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How a 162-Year-Old Specimen Helped Prove the Existence of an ‘Incredulous’ Lizard Species
A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a mysterious Cuban anole
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For the Love of Lizards: Meet One of the Smithsonian’s Lizard Experts
For more than fifty years, museum herpetologist George Zug has studied all manner of reptiles and amphibians
Say Hello to the Scientist Using Lizard Limbs to Unlock Evolution's Secrets
For this month's Meet a SI-entist, we caught up with Kevin de Queiroz to talk about the evolution of lizard legs and the joys of unplanned discoveries
