Do you know of an example of a recessive trait taking over in a species?

Peppered Moths- before the 1900s most of them were white and then after the industrial revolution most of them became black, as the trees they were on got darker from the soot and so more birds could find and eat the white ones. They returned to white again when the soot started to decrease when cleaner energy was produced.

That's a horrible, horrible example, not least because "feathers" is not "a trait", and "birds" and "lizards" are so distantly related as to make any such comparison meaningless.

Anyway, there are lots of examples of recessive traits being more common - dominant/recessive has nothing at all to do with how common a trait is.  Polydactyly - having more than five fingers/toes on each limb - is dominant, but very very rare.  The trick is to figure out which allele was the ancestral version.  In other words, you're looking for an instance where the dominant allele was around first, then the recessive allele arose through mutation and spread through the population.  I'm sure there are tons of examples - there's nothing whatsoever to prevent such a thing happening - but I can't think of one offhand.  Eye color might work in Northern European populations - dark eyes are dominant and ancestral, while most people in those populations have blue, light eyes.