A lizard with GREEN BLOOD???

[kinyonga]

Not a chameleon...but it sounded interesting...
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/09/30/why-do-mysterious-lizards-have-green-blood/

 

[Grayson Payne]

Thanks for all the info you post! I find everything to be very interesting!

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Not a chameleon...but it sounded interesting...
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/09/30/why-do-mysterious-lizards-have-green-blood/

Roses are red, violets are blue … and these lizards’ blood is green. It’s not a trick of the imagination or a penchant for food coloring—Prasinohaema skinks living on the island of New Guinea actually have green blood, bones, and tissue—and one scientist is trying to figure out why. Louisiana State University biologist and National Geographic explorer...

They're aliens.

There's a common lizard in the western US—The Western Fence Lizard—whose blood actually kills the Lyme Disease bacteria. IDK why someone hasn't figured out how to get or make a vaccine or cure out of this. [shrug—dunno]

Studies have shown Lyme disease is lower in areas where the lizards occur. When ticks carrying Lyme disease feed on these lizards' blood (which they commonly do, especially around their ears), a protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick that causes Lyme disease. The infection inside the ticks' gut is therefore cleared and the tick no longer carries Lyme disease.

Great news for the ticks...

 

[kinyonga]

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They're aliens.

There's a common lizard in the western US—The Western Fence Lizard—whose blood actually kills the Lyme Disease bacteria. IDK why someone hasn't figured out how to get or make a vaccine or cure out of this. [shrug—dunno]

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Great news for the ticks...

Can you provide a link to the article that talked about the fence lizards please?

 

[hiddenflaws]

SKINKS

 

[jacksonchamnew]

Horseshoe crabs have blue blood from cyanocobalanum as the oxygen carrier. The oxygen carrier may not be the heme group in these lizards.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

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They're aliens.

There's a common lizard in the western US—The Western Fence Lizard—whose blood actually kills the Lyme Disease bacteria. IDK why someone hasn't figured out how to get or make a vaccine or cure out of this. [shrug—dunno]

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Great news for the ticks...

Can you provide a link to the article that talked about the fence lizards please?

I did—It's right there—The Western Fence Lizard
If you need more, follow footnote 7 from that page, or
western fence lizard lyme disease

 

[kinyonga]

Oops...missed that. Thanks!
Now I want fence lizards to live in Ontario to kill the Lyme disease!!

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Also, the Lyme disease factor only applies to Western fence lizards; Eastern fence lizards don't have the protein.

I think the Westerns are much prettier.

 

[AmandaS]

Oops...missed that. Thanks!
Now I want fence lizards to live in Ontario to kill the Lyme disease!!

Maybe @jamest0o0 wants a few fence lizards

 

[jamest0o0]

Maybe @jamest0o0 wants a few fence lizards

More than a few!

 

[jamest0o0]

Speaking of lizards and medical benefits, I always thought this was really cool

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-blood-of-komodo-dragons-could-help-us-to-slay-antibiotic-resistance

 

[kinyonga]

Speaking of lizards and medical benefits, I always thought this was really cool

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-blood-of-komodo-dragons-could-help-us-to-slay-antibiotic-resistance

Very interesting!

 

[kinyonga]

Another interesting lizard article...especially for anyone with diabetes...
https://www.research.va.gov/research_in_action/Diabetes-drug-from-Gila-monster-venom.cfm