Colorful reptile protected by fire, study shows. Aug. 25, 2011 — -- Alan Templeton was a 13-year-old Boy Scout when he saw his first collared lizard in Missouri's Ozark Mountains. He returned ...

Biologist Alan Templeton fell in love with the eastern collared lizard that lives in the hot, dry Ozark glades when he was 13. By the time he returned from graduate and postgraduate work, 75 percent ...

EUREKA SPRINGS — The city of Eureka Springs wants to preserve and promote the Eastern collared lizards that live in an old limestone quarry at Lake Leatherwood Park. Locally known as “mountain boomers ...

Conservationists recently released 43 eastern collared lizards bred at the Little Rock Zoo in the Arkansas Ozarks thanks to an innovative partnership between the Little Rock Zoo, the Arkansas Game and ...

SOAKING UP THE SUN: Collared lizards love to bask in the sun. About four dozen of the reptiles were released across glade habitats in northern Arkansas in May. Credit: Little Rock Zoo Nearly four ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 51, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 197-201 (5 pages) Increasing evidence indicates that sex-determination mechanisms in reptiles (genotypic sex determination [GSD] and temperature ...

In a time when a five-year grant is considered a long-term grant, Alan R. Templeton, PhD, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has managed to follow some of ...