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...
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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