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These ‘Pirate Lizards’ Thrive With Three Legs
Now, the results of their work suggest that limb loss is common among lizards—and that these “ three-legged pirates ” can run ...
Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to ...
When we tested the three-legged lizards’ athletic performance, the results defied expectations. Some animals were clearly impaired in their sprinting capabilities, but others actually ran faster than ...
Lizards can scare the hell out of some of us. Even though they can't seem to do much harm from a distance, just sighting them ...
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Georgia Institute of Technology studied lizards with missing limbs to understand how forces of evolution and resiliency affect organisms.
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