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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...

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