How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...
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New findings are showing that as our planet warms, desert lizards face a real energy crisis. According to an article from ...
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Desert habitats are some of the harshest places on Earth: little water, scorching heat, and food sources loaded with salt make survival a constant battle. For chuckwallas and other desert lizards, ...
Desert lizards are facing a ‘cost-of-living’ squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature, which ...
Lahore wildlife authorities have intercepted a large illegal consignment of desert lizards, with over 100 animals reportedly mutilated and rendered immobile, officials said. Acting on instructions ...
1. For ectotherms such as lizards, the importance of behavioural thermoregulation in avoiding thermal extremes is well-established and is increasingly acknowledged in modern studies of climate warming ...
THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. – Walking through the Coachella Valley Preserve, Cameron Barrows is all activity. The preserve manager stuffs his pockets with trash, points out an endangered desert pupfish ...
One of the strange, small reptiles living within the giant deserts of Southern Africa is the barking gecko. It is unusual and strange to find a small gecko that barks very loudly and scares the wits ...
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