With green blood comes Granny Smith-colored muscles and bones and a blue-green mouth, exposed during defensive posturing. But the strangest thing about the five species of Prasinohaema lizard is ...

In 1969, two biologists wrote about three lizards from New Guinea whose insides were green. The color ranged from a deep blue-green to a vivid lime hue, and it was everywhere. The lizards ...

Roses are red, violets are blue … and these lizards’ blood is green. Prasinohaema skinks are green all over. Photograph by Christopher Austin, Louisiana State University Museum of Natural History.

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But Prasinohaema lizards are packed with the stuff—and at levels 40 times the lethal dose for humans. It’s also deadly when present in the circulatory system of other vertebrates.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For some lizards it's easy being green. It's in their blood. Six species of lizards in New Guinea bleed lime green thanks to evolution gone weird.

The lizard with an INVISIBILITY CLOAK: Reptile uses its bright blue head to hide from hungry birds of prey. Iberian emerald lizard is almost invisible to birds when viewed from above ...

These Lizards Evolved Toxic Green Blood ... Not all blood is red. Some types of octopuses, mollusks and crustaceans have clear blood that turns blue in the presence of oxygen.

The blue-crested lizard (Calotes mystaceus) hails from Southeast Asia, China and South Asia.It often grows to around 28 cm long, but some much bigger specimens have been recorded at 42 cm. It’s not ...

Some critters bleed different colors of the rainbow besides red. The New Guinea lizards’ blood — along with their tongues, muscles and bones — appear green. Scientists still don’t know why this ...

One female is a tannish orange while another is primarily green. Blue-headed wood lizards “were found sleeping at night” in mountainous forests between elevations of about 5,100 to about 6,700 ...