A female fence lizard sports blue markings, a male trait that makes her less appealing to potential mates. Langkilde Lab, Penn State University For female fence lizards, it's just not easy being blue.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X If you are on the fence about reptiles, this little lizard is appealing. The eastern fence lizard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the fence, there was the lizard. From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences ...

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image: This photo shows a male fence lizard with male-type bright blue "badges" outlined in black. Mating-behavior studies of lizards in three southern US states have revealed which females male ...

Scientists have documented the rare strategy where some female populations of one reptile species, the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), are actually male mimics. Here, around 70 percent of ...

In last week’s column we considered the land snail, one of the slowest critters in our Southern Appalachia fauna. This week we’ll take a look at one of the fastest, the fence lizard, which is also one ...

Male eastern fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus, are spiny lizards who sport pretty drab colors except for the vibrant blues on the sides of their bellies and on their throats, which help attract the ...

New research shows that when some fence lizards are attacked by fire ants they "stress out"-- a response that actually helps the species to survive by heightening the animal's awareness of imminent ...

Mating-behavior studies of lizards in three southern US states have revealed which females male lizards find to be the sexiest. The research provides insight into the evolution of male-female ...