Photo by Gary Owen Dick.
Reader Gary Owen Dick (see also this post on a yellow anole he found) writes from near Dallas: Took some pics the other day of a female green anole shedding. What intrigues me is the blue coloration on the inner side of the backlit pieces of the loose stratum corneum seen at these angles. Is this a structural thing, or a camera illusion?
Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. I've spent my entire professional career studying anoles and have discovered that the more I learn about anoles, the more I realize I don't know.
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