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Natural selection in action: Hurricanes Irma and Maria affected island lizards

  • Written by Colin Donihue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Natural selection in action: Hurricanes Irma and Maria affected island lizardsHolding on in hurricane-force winds.Colin Donihue, CC BY-ND

The Turks and Caicos anole is a small brown lizard found running through the undergrowth in the Turks and Caicos Islands. It’s an endemic species, meaning these few islands are the only place to find Anolis scriptus anywhere in the world. Despite the species being fairly common...

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