After a steady diet of pizza grease and sand, a lizard in Florida recently broke the record for largest crap relative to a living organism's body size. As recently published in the Herpetological ...

Sand is likely the part of this lizard's diet that caused the bolus to become so large — and the lizard probably ate the sand because it had something tasty mixed in, like pizza grease ...

A greasy, sandy diet left a northern curly-tailed ... However, it's unclear how long it may take these sand-packed masses to accumulate in a lizard's gut. "There is no good way to tell because ...

Courtesy of Natalie Claunch When Natalie Claunch and her colleagues plucked the portly northern curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus ... mixed in with accidental gulps of sand and the more typically ...

These can yank water out of moist sand, drawing the fluid up against the pull of gravity, across the lizard’s body, and into its waiting mouth. All it needs to do is to stand in the right spot ...

This will improve the nutritional quality of your lizard's diet. It’s a difference that ... or wooden box. Use a mix of sand, dirt, and newspaper for your substrate. Also include objects like ...

"For instance, the transmitters should not protrude above the sand lizard, as the animals can quickly become entangled in the dense vegetation through which they would otherwise move across." ...

The lizard is called a “sand skink,” and was classified as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1987. Unfortunately for developer’s these sand skinks are specific to ...

Devils are well-adapted to their hot, harsh environment. In extreme temperatures, they bury themselves in sand to protect themselves from the sun. They then use channels on their skin, located ...