They boast the same remarkable adaptation to their arid home scale-covered skin that captures water and carries it to the animal's mouth, enabling it to drink when raindrops hit its back or even, in the thorny devil's case, when its belly meets damp sand. Recently, a team led by Wade C. Sherbrooke of the American Museum of Natural History in New York figured out how this weird plumbing system works....
Language
English
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
Release
August 24, 2018
ISBN 13
9780266608721
Natural History, Vol. 116: November 2007 (Classic Reprint)
They boast the same remarkable adaptation to their arid home scale-covered skin that captures water and carries it to the animal's mouth, enabling it to drink when raindrops hit its back or even, in the thorny devil's case, when its belly meets damp sand. Recently, a team led by Wade C. Sherbrooke of the American Museum of Natural History in New York figured out how this weird plumbing system works....