is a freelance science journalist, podcast host, comics artist, and TV host. This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written ...

The lizard is surrounded. She darts beneath a spiky shrub, a towering figure in a wide-brimmed hat looming over her. Corey Roelke shouts for someone to put down another glue trap. Edita Folfas swiftly ...

A long, slender lizard moved among trees in a pinyon-juniper woodland on the Colorado Plateau, searching the accumulated debris beneath the trees for grubs, spiders, beetles or any other insects. It ...

The Texas Spotted Whiptail (Cnemidophorus gularis gularis) is one of 11 species of “racerunners” that live in Texas, and it arguably has the largest area of distribution. It can be observed statewide, ...

Scientists better understand how and why hybridization leads to diverse evolutionary outcomes – such as increased genetic diversity in a species, versus creation of a species that’s wholly new – ...

Quite often, while walking in open space around Boulder, my slow advance triggers the explosions of grasshoppers frantic to escape, and it makes me wonder about what danger they are attempting to ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Even though there are headaches that might come with the hotter weather (weeds, allergies) some cool things are happening in your front and back yards as well. This is the ...

While many organisms featured in this column can observed statewide, others only occur in small pockets of appropriate habitat throughout the state. However, there is one species of whiptail that's ...