The Only Living Sea Lizard: Marine Iguana


	The Only Living Sea Lizard: Marine Iguana

amgumen

3-22-2008 1:17 AM

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3-25-2008 6:38 AM

merrie

My brother has iguana's, but their the common type.

3-25-2008 7:37 AM

skwirlinator

GODZILLA baby pictures!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6b547b0a-b8f6-41a9-864d-11ae47d3babc/9A6AA96D-C56B-443B-B0A0-4AF5DC1EFE57/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/The-Only-Living-Sea-Lizard-Marine-Iguana-2.jpg" href="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/The-Only-Living-Sea-Lizard-Marine-Iguana-2.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">news.softpedia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/The-Only-Living-Sea-Lizard-Marine-Iguana-2.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.softpedia.com/img/E8AC0800-9389-4054-A56B-6BE41ADF58CB" alt="Basking marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Only-Living-Sea-Lizard-Marine-Iguana-79557.shtml" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Only-Living-Sea-Lizard-Marine-Iguana-79557.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">news.softpedia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Only-Living-Sea-Lizard-Marine-Iguana-79557.shtml">There is only one true living sea lizard: the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), a native of the Galapagos Islands. Despite their terrific look, with short snout, black eyes, large mouth and the crest of spikes (which are in fact soft at touch), long, flattened and powerful tail, long, sharp claws that give them an aspect of Mesozoic monsters, these lizards are peaceful vegetarians. They dive and eat algae and weeds from the sea bottom, but also those plants exposed by the low tide. From time to time, they eject, through their nostrils, a brine liquid,
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