Lizards do a wheelie as they accelerate!

The Hindustan Times | June 13, 2008 | Copyright

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Washington, June 13 -- While studying how dragon lizards run on two legs, a team of researchers has realised that there is a strong correlation between the lizards' acceleration and their front legs pulling off the ground.

Christofer Clemente, a zoologist at the School of Animal Biology affiliated to the University of Western Australia, revealed that he and his colleagues collected 16 dragon lizard species for their study.

He said that the lizards collected ranged from frilled neck lizards to the incredibly rare C. ...

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