The Real-Life Dragon You've Probably Never Heard Of

About this episode

In this minisode, the hosts explore the Armadillo Girdled Lizard, a unique reptile from South Africa.

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe and unleash your inner science goblin. We see you. We respect it. What if dragons were real? In this minisode of Wildly Curious, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole explore one of the strangest reptiles on Earth: the Armadillo Girdled Lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus), a tiny armored lizard from South Africa that looks like it crawled straight out of a fantasy novel. Covered in spiky scales and equipped with one of the most unusual defense strategies in the animal...

People in this episode

Hosts: Katy Reiss, Laura Fawks Lapole

Topics covered

• reptiles
• defense strategies
• fantasy creatures
• South Africa
• lizards

Keywords

• dragon
• Armadillo Girdled Lizard
• Ouroborus cataphractus
• reptiles
• defense mechanisms
• fantasy
• nature

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Armadillo Girdled Lizard

Places: South Africa

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