Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations. Discover the biology, natural history, and diversity of geckos as lizard biologist and gecko expert Aaron Bauer answers deceptively simple questions with surprising and little-known facts. Readers can explore colour photographs that reveal the natural wonder..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, black and white photographs, text illustrations. No two lizard species have spawned as much folklore, wonder, and myth as the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, and the Beaded lizard, H. horridum - the sole survivors of an ancient group of predacious..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. Lizards exhibit, in a form that is simpler to isolate and study, many of the same traits of higher vertebrates. For this reason, zoologists have long chosen lizards as model systems to address questions that are central to ecological and..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world..... More
London: Natural History Museum, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A comprehensive introduction to chameleon biology, natural history and classification. This fully illustrated book begins by exploring chameleon evolution and classification, describing how they fit into life's evolutionary tree and revealing their close relations. Covering all of the 192 species of..... More
Darwin: Valvolandia Publishing, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Drawing on scientific research, this book is written in a highly accessible style complemented by full colour photographs. Containing astonishing behavioural images that explore the beauty and harsh realities of the frillneck's tropical life. Perfect for the young reader and naturalist alike..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. Filled with beguiling images, Lizard is a unique and sometimes surprising introduction to this popular but little-understood reptile. Boria Sax describes the diversity of lizard species and traces the representation of this reptile in cultures worldwide. Lizards stimulate the..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Features detailed species accounts; gives information on horned lizard biology, ecology, and evolution; and describes the role of these fascinating reptiles in mythology, culture, and art. This guide covers the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and includes all species..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1994. In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. The nearly 700 named Australian species are divided into seven families: the dragons, monitors, skinks, flap-footed lizards and three families of geckos. Using a vast array of artful strategies, lizards have managed to find a home in virtually all terrestrial habitats. This..... More