Tropical Lizards Can't Take The Heat Of Climate Warming

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 19:28 in Earth & Climate

Lizards living in tropical forests in Central and South America and the Caribbean could be in serious peril from rising temperatures associated with climate change. In fact, those forest lizards appear to tolerate a much narrower range of survivable temperatures than do their relatives at higher latitudes and are actually less tolerant of high temperatures, according to biologists.

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