The Lizard That Drinks Through Its Skin What animal doesn’t lap water… but soaks it up through its body? Meet the thorny devil (Moloch horridus) — an Australian desert lizard that looks like a walking weapon and drinks like a sponge. Instead of bending down to sip water, the thorny devil has a network of microscopic grooves and channels between its scales. When rain falls, dew forms, or it stands in damp sand, water is drawn along these channels by capillary action and funnelled straight to the

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