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Article: Lizards and snakes ... oh, my! The American Museum of Natural History is the ideal showcase for live squamates and their remarkable adaptations for survival, including projectile tongues, deadly venom, amazing camouflage, and sometimes surprising modes of locomotion.(Ecology)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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"LIZARDS & SNAKES: Alive!" introduces visitors to a diversity of squamates--the animal group that includes legged and legless lizards and snakes. It showcases live specimens and their remarkable adaptations for survival, including projectile tongues, deadly venom, amazing camouflage, and sometimes surprising modes of locomotion. Representing 26 species from the Amazon, Caribbean, and Galapagos Islands--and occurring in countries such as Australia, Cuba, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Kenya. Madagascar, Mexico, Sudan, and the U.S.--the specimens range from a four-inch Tropical Girdled Lizard to a 14' Burmese Python. They are shown in re-created habitats complete with ponds, tree ...