When I first moved to the Houston Heights area, the bulk of the lizard population in our backyard consisted of the same old critters I’d grown up with: the green anole. “Green” is something of a ...

The creature is small, somewhat furtive and green. Sometimes it’s brown. It has a voracious appetite for insects and spiders but is completely harmless to people. It clings to walls and screens and ...

Sarah Baade practically considers anole lizards her personal gardeners. The green little reptiles have a knack for keeping her company at her San Antonio home while she tends to her front yard ...

The Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis), commonly called the green anole, is native to the United States and is the most common lizard found in Florida in both urban and rural areas. Some call it a ...

Recently, on a cold, sunny morning, I picked up a flowerpot and was pleased to find a brown, torpid lizard curled beneath it. At first the lizard’s coloration looked like a bad bruise of blotchy brown ...

It flashed across the walkway like a lightning bolt, so fast that Bob Thomas had to do a double take. In that split second six months ago, he knew they had finally arrived. “I’d been waiting for them ...