
Lizard vs. Hurricane: Natural selection at work
BREAKING NEWS: NATURAL SELECTION RESULTING FROM CATASTROPHIC HURRICANES A French-US collaboration population study on Anolis scriptus, a small, brown/green-brown lizard found on the Bahamas Archipelago, took an unexpected turn when hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the Turks and Caicos islands. The savage weather conditions meant that many lizards did not survive. But. The few, fortunate lizards that did survive had a unique anatomy: longer front limbs, larger toe pads, and short