Monsters live in the normally dry, desert landscapes of the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern arid regions of Mexico. They belong to an ancient ...
Despite their fearsome-sounding name and venomous bite, these desert-dwelling lizards – the largest in the United States – have evolved in unique ways to thrive in an arid climate. Native to the ...
Size comparison of the holotype specimen of Bolg amondol (UMNH VP 16266, left, Natural History Museum of Utah / Bureau of Land Management) and a modern Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum, right). Gold: ...
SHUFELDT, R. The Poison Apparatus of the Heloderma. Nature 43, 514–515 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043514c0 ...
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It is one of only two venomous lizards in the world, but the Gila Monster could become an unlikely boon for the health of tens of thousands of Scots. The poison of the large reptile, native to Mexico ...
Mitigation translocation of nuisance animals is a commonly used management practice aimed at resolution of human–animal conflict by removal and release of an individual animal. Long considered a ...
Razan Al Mubarak, president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, describes biodiversity as the planet’s original information network—an archive of genetic data refined over billions ...
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