Reptiles are extraordinary creatures with diverse abilities. For example, tiny lizards in Costa Rica's rainforest have developed a way to "scuba-dive" by creating air bubbles on their foreheads to ...

New research reveals that scuba-diving lizards, described as “the chicken ... of semi-aquatic lizard found in the tropical forests of Costa Rica—utilize this unique technique to avoid birds ...

She first noticed this unique adaptation while walking along mountain streams in Costa Rica, observing the lizards dive and remain underwater for surprising lengths of time. According to her findings, ...

a type of semi-aquatic lizard found in the tropical forests of southern Costa Rica. She had previously documented the lizards using a bubble underwater. When these lizards feel threatened by a ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do.

Reptiles are astonishingly diverse, with extraordinary adaptations such as a tiny lizard in Costa Rica that has evolved ... mammals and other lizards. And when camouflage fails, waiting out ...

For one lizard species living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, their unique escape ... experts previously weren’t sure if the lizards intentionally leveraged these bubbles, or if they ...

Scuba-diving lizards have an aquatic trick up their sleeves ... time living on boulders close to river banks in forests in Costa Rica and Panama. They are small lizards that can grow up to ...

The park is also home to white-faced monkeys, toucans, jaguars, bright lizards, red-eyed frogs and blue morpho butterflies. Though not the easiest national park to visit in Costa Rica, past ...

a type of semi-aquatic lizard found in the tropical forests of southern Costa Rica. She had previously documented the lizards using a bubble underwater. When these lizards feel threatened by a ...