Prick your finger and you’ll see a spurt of scarlet. Puncture a member of the Prasinohaema, a genus of skinks, and you’ll get a flow of green blood instead. Because the compound that gives the blood ...

The prehensile tailed skink from the highlands of New Papua New Guinea has green blood due to high concentrations of the green bile pigment biliverdin. The green bile pigment in the blood overwhelms ...

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Green blood is weird enough. But now the first genealogical tree tracing green blood in New Guinea’s Prasinohaema lizards is suggesting something even odder. These skinks have been lumped into one ...

In the rainforests of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands lives a small species of lizard that could make even the Hulk envious with its unusual trait: Its blood is bright toxic green–a feature that is ...

For some lizards it’s easy being green. It’s in their blood. Six species of lizards in New Guinea bleed lime green thanks to evolution gone weird. It’s unusual, but there are critters that bleed ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 16 about lizards with green blood, The Associated Press misidentified them as amphibians. Lizards are reptiles. WASHINGTON (AP) — For some lizards it’s easy being ...

Kermit the Frog used to sing that it wasn't easy being green, but that isn't the case for some real-life lizards. They apparently find being green so easy that even their blood is green. A study ...

WASHINGTON (AP) " In a story May 16 about lizards with green blood, The Associated Press misidentified them as amphibians. Lizards are reptiles. A corrected version of the story is below: WASHINGTON ...