Darker lizards are easy for predators to see. While lighter lizards can hide against the gypsum sand, helping them hide. Lizards that escape getting caught due to their white color live longer. If you live longer, you will have more offspring. Their babies will inherit the bright white color and then, in time, pass the coloration onto their own offspring.
You can sometimes see them running around the dunes catching bugs. The lizards talk to each other by bobbing their heads, just like you have probably seen other kinds of lizards do. They do have ears, but they are not visible like ours. The ears have a layer of skin that helps keep the sand out while digging.
You can sometimes see them running around the dunes catching bugs. The lizards talk to each other by bobbing their heads, just like you have probably seen other kinds of lizards do. They do have ears, but they are not visible like ours. The ears have a layer of skin that helps keep the sand out while digging.
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Itineraries across USA
Acadia
Arches National Park
Badlands
Big Bend
Biscayne
Black Canyon Of The Gunnison
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Carlsbad Caverns
Channel Islands
Congaree
Crater Lake
Cuyahoga Valley
Death Valley
Dry Tortugas
Everglades
Gateway Arch
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Grand Teton
Great Basin
Great Smoky Mountains
Guadalupe Mountains
Haleakalā
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Indiana Dunes
Isle Royale
Joshua Tree
Kenai Fjords
Kobuk Valley
Lassen Volcanic
Mammoth Cave
Mesa Verde
Mount Rainier
North Cascades
Olympic
Petrified Forest
Pinnacles
Rocky Mountain
Saguaro
Shenandoah
Theodore Roosevelt
Virgin Islands
Voyageurs
White Sands
Wind Cave
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Zion