In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles must choose between a mediocre but comfortable life and one that will end in his untimely death but immortal glory. And so it was with the case of a curiously distended ...

They may not get as much press as the pythons or the iguanas, but chances are you’ve seen a lot more of the Northern Curlytail Lizard. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ...

The state of Florida spends millions of dollars annually controlling invasive plants on public lands. But plants are not the only living things to invade our shores. It is estimated that Florida is ...

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 ...

A diet of grease led to the demise of a curly-tailed lizard in Florida. Researchers discovered the tubby creature near a Cocoa Beach pizza parlor with a record-breaking case of constipation – an ...

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 ...

A super-constipated Florida reptile has broken the record for the largest mass of feces ever discovered in a living animal — relative to its size, that is. The chunky curly-tailed lizard had been ...