Well done to Team Lizard 2017, who have had their paper on a rare but pervasive colour polymorphism in common lizards published! The summer field team of University of Glasgow Zoology undergrads, a masters and a PhD student analysed and drafted this paper from the field site, documenting melanic common lizards in the Alps. There is also the possibility melanism is sex biased, as only females were found, but given how rare these specimens are it is difficult to draw conclusions on that and more sampling will be needed. Paper is out in Herpetology Notes 2018 Melanism in common lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae: Zootoca vivipara): new evidence for a rare but widespread ancestral polymorphism by Hans Recknagel, Megan Layton, Ruth Carey, Henrique Leitão, Mark Sutherland, Kathryn R Elmer https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/view/33903 Abstract. The presence of a dark-coloured body colouration polymorphism (melanism) is a pervasive phenomenon in the animal kingdom, particularly in...