Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home

Courtesy ScienceDaily Fri, 04/18/2008 - 06:00

In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru.

Now researchers have shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes.

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