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Horned lizards mostly hunt out in the open, licking up ants and other insects with their sticky tongues. However, this also makes the lizards easy targets for predators like roadrunners, coyotes ...
The thorny devil (Moloch horridus), also known commonly as the mountain devil, thorny lizard, thorny dragon, and moloch, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Australia. It is the sole species in the genus Moloch. It grows up to 21 cm (8.3 in) in total length (including tail), with females generally larger ...
The Amphibolurinae are a subfamily of lizards in the family Agamidae. ... (thorny devil) 1 Thorny devil (M. horridus) Physignathus (Chinese water dragon) 1
This group of lizards includes some more popularly known, such as the domesticated bearded dragon, Chinese water dragon, and Uromastyx species. One of the key distinguishing features of the agamids is their teeth, which are borne on the outer rim of their mouths ( acrodonts ), rather than on the inner side of their jaws ( pleurodonts ).
To avoid being picked up by the head or neck, a horned lizard ducks or elevates its head and orients its cranial horns straight up, or back. If a predator tries to take it by the body, the lizard drives that side of its body down into the ground so the predator cannot easily get its lower jaw underneath. [citation needed]
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The thorny devil color ranges from light brown to black and resembles bark or rotten wood. Both sexes are wingless and armored with spines on body and legs. Exhibiting the sexual dimorphism of many similar insects (particularly other phasmids as well as mantises ), males are small and thinner, less than 9-10 cm long while females are typically ...
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