Cross Breeds

is it possible for lizards to cross breed?

can lizards or reptiles cross breed species? Like one type of lizard species breeding with a lizard of a different one? Felines, canines, can do it, but can reptiles?

Public Comments

1. different breeds of canines can do it not species, do not confuse the terms. Only some felines can, reptiles hmmmm....
2. That depends on your definition of species. According to the geneticists' view, if they can interbreed to produce fertile offspring, they would be of the same species. Even from a more practical view, I've never heard of hybrid lizards.
3. Hybridizations happens in practically all sexually reproducing organisms from plants to porpoises. While the aged and overly simplistic definition of species seems to exclude hybridization between species, it can and does happen, even in nature. Usually for the resulting offspring to be viable, the two species need to be closely related, but sometimes even species from different genera manage to crossbreed and produce (semi)fertile offspring. Reptile hybrids or amphibian hybrids tend to garner much less attention from the general public than mammal or bird hybrids, so you generally don't hear about them, but they do exist. For a few cases of documented crossbreeding between two lizard species, see the links I included in sources.