The Economist -
10 Sep 2015 16:48

Salad, again, for lunch MANY plant-eating species descend from meat-eating lineages. Indeed, adorable bamboo-munching giant pandas belong to the order Carnivora. However, it is rare to catch this evolutionary transition to vegetarianism in action. Now a team of biologists has done so with a lizard. Balkan green lizards (pictured below) inhabit the Greek archipelago as well as the mainland. Formally, they are an insectivore that occasionally nibbles on plants. But Kostas Sagonas of the University...
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