For some lizards it is easy being green. It is in their blood. Six species of lizards in 2-18
New Guinea bleed lime green thanks to evolution gone weird. It is unusual, but there
are creatures that bleed different colors of the rainbow besides red. The New Guinea
lizards' blood
along with their tongues, muscles, and bones appears green
The bile levels are
5
because of incredibly large doses of a green bile* pigment*.
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higher than those at which other animals, including people, could survive.