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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Jason Goldman. At about 7.30 p.m. on

September 7, 2017, Hurricane Irma reached the Turks and Kekos Islands. By the next morning,

a neighborhood called Blue Hill was gone, and on South Kekos Island, 75% of rooftops were obliterated.

Two weeks later, Hurricane Maria followed in Irma's destructive footsteps.

And Harvard University biologist Colin Donahue happened to be there a few days before

the hurricanes blew through.

The Turks and Kekos Islands is home to a couple of different endemic species of lizard.

That's lizards that are only found there.

We were interested in one in particular called Anolis Scriptus, the Turks and Caicosanol.

The mission of that first expedition, before the two hurricanes, was to assay the lizard

population in anticipation of a program to eradicate the islands of invasive rats, which

threaten the lizards.

This work included taking detailed measurements of the bodies of lizards that they trapped

and then released.

The researchers intended to return several years later, after the rats were gone, to reassess the

lizards.

But that plan changed.

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