Towards Uncovering the Origin of New Guinea Lizards' Green Blood (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Towards Uncovering the Origin of New Guinea Lizards' Green Blood (1 of 6)

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The prehensile tailed skink (Prasinohaema prehensicauda) from the highlands of Papua New Guinea has green blood due to high concentrations of the green bile pigment biliverdin. Note the green color of the mucosal lining and tongue. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 16 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z.B. Rodriguez at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and colleagues was titled, "Multiple origins of green blood in New Guinea lizards."

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[Credit: Christopher Austin]

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