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Meet the Arizona grad student and lizard lady named a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist KiMi Robinson, Arizona Republic Every Wednesday evening, 26-year-old Earyn McGee opens Twitter and asks her followers if they can “#FindThatLizard” in a photo of a camouflaged lizard. Hundreds of users play the “Where’s Waldo”-type game, tweeting McGee with either their excitement over being able to spot the reptile — or their frustration at being stumped again. This popular game, whic...

If there is such a thing as a celebrity herpetologist, University of Arizona doctoral student Earyn McGee is well on her way. At age 26, the self-described “lizard lady” already has her own Wikipedia page, a temporary statue in her honor at the Central Park Zoo in New York City, and her own line of merchandise for the tens of thousands of people who follow her on social media. Earlier this month, McGee’s campaign to make science more fun and her field more inclusive to people of ...