They shoot blood from their eye sockets! This usually frightens predators enough to make them flee. Fortunately for humans, horned lizards rarely shoot blood at ...
16 мая 2024 г. · You might think the world's most powerful lizard is the Komodo dragon – the largest and heaviest lizard in the world, with a venomous bite ...
And if this proves insufficient, some species employ one of the animal kingdom's most bizarre defensive mechanisms: they shoot blood from their eyes. The ...
19 окт. 2024 г. · They shoot the blood at predators to cause confusion, giving them a chance to escape. Around eight species of horned lizards are thought to use ...
14 февр. 2022 г. · There is a sinus just under horned lizards' eyes that fills with blood and pressurizes, forcefully expelling the blood in a stream that can ...
14 сент. 2016 г. · When a horned lizard feels threatened by a predator, its final defense response is to shoot blood from these flooded sinuses and out its eye ...