Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Living Dinosaur

 

A black iguana basks on a palm root on a Pacific Ocean beach in Costa Rica. This enormous lizard is also known as the ctenosaur, which fittingly sounds like the name of a dinosaur.


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These lizards grow to more than 4 feet in length.




Black iguanas eat leaves, flowers, fruit and insects. But they can be cannibals based on this one's choice of lunch. Smaller iguanas normally stick to the relative safety of the tree canopy. 





A black iguana has the beach to himself in the early morning hours as the surf breaks behind him.



Smaller lizards usually stick to the safety of the tree canopy, but this one was caught unawares on the beach. 

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