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Thorny devil

Moloch horridus




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MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 10 months ago

Wow!

lori.tas
lori.tas a year ago

They are soft, Alice. My partner says that to her they felt like very, very soft patent leather. I read something recently that said the runnels between the spikes actually funneled the dew into droplets that ran towards their mouths.

A second one. It is so hard to visualize them as being soft, but that is what they say.

Northern Territory, Australia

Lat: -25.35, Long: 131.03

Spotted on Apr 15, 1997
Submitted on Aug 13, 2011

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