This Diminutive Reptile Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors

A male side-splotched lizard, so named for the dark spot on its side, sporting a blue throat. Credit: Ammon Corl

Ammon Corl, a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, is highlighted in The New York Times for leading research that revealed the genetic variation behind the side-blotched lizard's unique rock-paper-scissors evolutionary game. Read the full article here