As every year, we travelled to the Mediterranean region for fieldwork this spring. This year’s campaign had two main objectives: first, to collect animals from Sicily to establish breeding groups for a new project; and second, to sample three species of Podarcis that...

The Mediterranean region is home to 28 different species of wall lizards of the genus Podarcis, whose remarkable diversity has fascinated – and puzzled – naturalists for over a century. In some groups of organisms, such as birds, individuals can usually be assigned...