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3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

  • Written by James T. Stroud, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology
3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wildA brown basilisk missing both its entire left forearm and part of its right hind limb.Brian Hillen

We are lizardbiologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures.

Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a typically uncooperative lizard across dense and narrow branches,...

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