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Arizona loves its lizards: Community helps ASU researcher uncover secrets of Gila monster DNA
In the Sonoran Desert, there are few animals that are so simultaneously beloved and elusive as the iconic, venomous Gila monster. Since they spend the vast majority of their lives underground ...
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This Desert Dweller Is The Only Venomous Lizard In All Of The United States
Take the Gila monster, for example. This desert dweller is the largest and ... Gila monsters live in the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Mojave deserts. They have black bodies with pink and yellow ...
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Gila monster: meet the lizard whose venomous bite is saving lives
Over 30 years ago scientists discovered the potential of Gila monster venom as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. The desert-dwelling Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is the United States' largest and ...
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The Gila chub occupies only about 10 to 15 percent of its historical range.
In the early to mid-1800s, the human population increased significantly in southern Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Sonora ... many of the fragile desert ecosystems haven't fully recovered, and some ...