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A horned lizard lying in mottled shade on sandy soil. The combination of its speckled, colored scales and the color of the sand grains and the dappled shadows makes it nearly invisible except up close. Horned lizards are wider and flatter than regular lizards and have spiky tails and a crest of spines on their neck. They resemble miniature Stegosaurus dinosaurs.

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A horned lizard lying in mottled shade on sandy soil. The combination of its speckled, colored scales and the color of the sand grains and the dappled shadows makes it nearly invisible except up close. Horned lizards are wider and flatter than regular lizards and have spiky tails and a crest of spines on their neck. They resemble miniature Stegosaurus dinosaurs.
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Today's #LizardReport is a little different because I am on a road trip. Camped out at Kelso Dunes and spent the morning herping in Mojave National Preserve.
7 species of lizard, 4 of them "life lizards"! Here's the first, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, a horned lizard. Look at that camo! They're sooo cute!
(It's intermission at a live theater performance, so I'll post more later or tomorrow in this thread.)
#lizard #herps #MojaveDesert

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