Nature's Amazing Plumbing System

While you waste hundreds of liters of water daily, as it flows continuously through the faucet (the question is for how long will we be able to afford this?), others struggle for any water droplet they can get. In some desert lizards, their entire body surface turned into an engineering mirac... [ read more >> ]

A thorny devil

The Texas horned lizard boasts tiny channels (shown in cross section, bottom) that help it stay hydrated.

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The Texas horned lizard boasts tiny channels (shown in cross section, bottom) that help it stay hydrated.