About the size of a chicken wing, Alberta’s only native lizard species lacks protection from predators — so they shoot blood out of their eye sockets.
And earlier this week, as part of an annual search for the endangered blood-squirting reptiles, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) found eight greater short-horned lizards in southeastern Alberta.
It’s the highest record of the species the NCC has ever found.
“I don’t think we’ve ever found more than two or three.… So to be able to find that many — it’s pretty incredible for us,” said Megan Jensen, NCC’s natural area manager for southeastern Alberta.
“There’s just
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