Study reveals mechanism used by tegu lizard to raise own temperature (IMAGE)

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Study reveals mechanism used by tegu lizard to raise own temperature

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In 2016, researchers supported by FAPESP had shown that tegu lizards reach higher temperatures than the burrows they inhabit in spring. This new study has found a physiological explanation for the phenomenon

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Livia Saccani Hervas

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