Fig. 1. Patterns of foraging mode evolution reconstructed on a molecular phylogeny for lizards (Townsend et al., 2004). Black branches (bold text) are sit-and-wait foragers, white branches are wide foragers, and foraging mode for Plestiodon ski. is unknown (grey). Note that WF evolved independently in the ground geckos, at the base of the Scincomorpha, and in the lineages leading to Varanus and the Lacertoidea. Foraging mode reconstruction (branch shading) is based on a larger sample of 110 species (Miles et al., 2007) and from Reilly and McBrayer (Reilly and McBrayer, 2007).