Ian Wang stumbled across a recently-published species description of an unbelievable new Anolis species that may be a new ecomorph – the ground-ground anole!! You have to read it for youself!
I am interested in whether, how, and why ecology shapes evolution (and evolution shapes ecology) through time, with an emphasis on microevolutionary pattern and process, adaptation, and field experiments. I completed my Ph.D. on Anolis lizards in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas, Austin studying threespine stickleback. They're not anoles, but they're cool too.
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James Lazell
Aw, Shucks! I caught lotsa those and just thought they were worms….
Dan Warren
I wonder if this is related to some of the new ecomorphs/species we’ve been working on in Curacao – we’ve tentatively named them the the coarse ground anole (Anolis folgerensis) and the finely ground anole (Anolis espresso).
Pat Shipman
This is so amazing! Have you managed to get an x-ray of the new limbless anole? I’d love to look at the skeletal modifications. Does it climb as snakes do ever?
Ramon E. Martinez-Grimaldo
Whoa! upload more photos please
Yoel Stuart
Hi all, I just added a disclaimer to the post. Just to be clear, pseudoophiosaurus (false snake lizard) is not a real lizard. This “article” was “published” on April 1 and meant completely as a joke. Sorry if we confused anyone!
Peter Mudde
Somewhere. in the back of my head, I remember this species as being already described by either Cope or Taylor.. as Norops naja
geneva
Seriously funny stuff, Yoel! Something about the image of a limbless yet dewlapped saurian has me captivated. It’s a loathsome, offensive brute… yet I can’t look away.
Yoel Stuart
Alas, that image was the work of one of my three co-conspirators. I’ll let him or her reveal him- or herself if they so choose! I agree! That dewlap is perfectly integrated into the rest of A. pseudoophiosaurus. Who is he signaling to I wonder?
Shoesmad
LOL You people are geniuses! Man, I wish I had had a more creative April Fool’s joke! 🙂 You inspire me to better next year!