Feel like you’ve stepped into a rerun of “Game of Thrones” when you venture outdoors in South Florida these days? It’s not your imagination. There are more lizards of a distinctive appearance and size ...

After a steady diet of pizza grease and sand, a lizard in Florida recently broke the record for largest crap relative to a living organism’s body size. As recently published in the Herpetological ...

Nearly all of this northern curly tail’s digestion was halted by an impassable fecal mass. Courtesy of Natalie Claunch When Natalie Claunch and her colleagues plucked the portly northern curly-tailed ...

Be grateful Florida lizards don’t wipe after pooping, or we’d really have a toilet paper problem. That’s because a team of University of Florida herpetologists found a bulbous Northern curly-tailed ...

Feasting on greasy pizza comes with its consequences for humans, but for a curly-tailed lizard on the eastern beaches of Florida, the results were especially crappy. The female curly-tailed lizard in ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Nature ...

Humans love pizza. This is a universally acknowledged truth (if you disagree... I'm sorry for you). And just as universal is our love for bread, sauce, and cheese, so to is our shared understanding of ...