Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Natural History, Vol. 116: November 2007
They boast the same remarkable adaptation to their arid home lands: scale-covered skin that captures water and carries it to the animal's mouth, enabling it to drink when raindrops hit its back or even, in the thorny devil's case, when its belly meets damp sand. Recently, a team led by Wade C. Sherbrooke of the American Museum of Natural History in New York figured out how this weird plumbing system works.
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