<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58779/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes.]]></description></item><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that several species of these skinks have rapidly evolved an elongate, limbless body form.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male lizards do push-ups just to get attention]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82897/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Grabbing someone's attention from a distance is a challenge, particularly under noisy conditions but, according to a new study, anole lizards have devised a successful &quot;look at me&quot; technique: They perform multiple full body, four-legged push-ups to get their fellow lizards to turn their heads.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study: Most lizards live on islands]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18749/1/</link><description><![CDATA[U.S. study has confirmed what biologists have long observed -- most lizards live on islands than on the mainland.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fastest Evolving Creature is 'Living Dinosaur']]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55863/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The tuatara resembles a lizard and is found only in New Zealand.<br/><br/>To make the estimate of evolutionary speed, researchers recovered DNA sequences from the bones of ancient tuatara. 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Although this was proven false, perhaps environment <i>can</i> change ones genes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/45896/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex. 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