How does a lizard that looks like a rose stem mated with a cactus suck water out of the desert? Images & Stories / Alamy The thorny devil is looking sharp. Rows of cactus-like spikes and thorns give ...
AFICIONADOS OF “Dune”, Frank Herbert’s novel about a planet covered by Sahara-like desert, will be familiar with the idea of animals that swim through sand. Giant worms which do just that are a ...
In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...
A little Saharan lizard "swims" through desert sands by undulating its body in a series of wave-like motions, a new study finds. The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a small lizard typically about 4 ...
A tiny lizard has become the scourge of the Texas oil industry. May 31, 2011— -- The sand dune lizard is a small reptile that has become the scourge of the Texas Oil industry, not because it is ...
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A Costa-Rican lizard species may have evolved scuba-diving qualities allowing it to stay underwater for 16 minutes, according to faculty at Binghamton University, State University ...
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