January 7, 2011

Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

National Geographic Daily News for September 1, 2010 reported on evolution in Australian lizzards.

Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales (map), the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state's higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.