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  • 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.

    Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution after Introduction to a New Home « Isegoria 2008

  • In 1971 a population of common Mediterranean lizards, Podarcis sicula, which mainly eat insects, was present on Pod Kopiste but there were none on Pod Mrcaru.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • They found a flourishing population of lizards on Pod Mrcaru, which DNA analysis confirmed were indeed Podarcis sicula.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • In 1971 a population of common Mediterranean lizards, Podarcis sicula, which mainly eat insects, was present on Pod Kopiste but there were none on Pod Mrcaru.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • In that year experimenters transported five pairs of Podarcis sicula from Pod Kopiste and released them on Pod Mrcaru.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • In that year experimenters transported five pairs of Podarcis sicula from Pod Kopiste and released them on Pod Mrcaru.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • They found a flourishing population of lizards on Pod Mrcaru, which DNA analysis confirmed were indeed Podarcis sicula.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Thirteen endemic forms of Dalmatian wall lizard (Podarcis melisellensis), each living on only one small island, have been described in Dalmatia.

    Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008

  • Common reptile species include asp viper Vipera aspis, viviparous lizard Lacerta vivipara, wall lizard Podarcis muralis and the green lizard Lacerta viridis.

    Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

  • The ecoregional mountain massifs host around 14 reptile species also typical of other similar forest ecosystems - mountain conifer and broadleaf mixed forests - from other Southern European Mediterranean countries (i.e. Algyroïdes fitzingeri, Podarcis tiliguerta, and Podarcis sicula).

    Appenine deciduous montane forests 2008

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