You Have Lizards In Your Hair!

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on November 11, 2008
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Photograph courtesy Karin Jaeger (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)

A new study says that our hair is related to reptile claws. Hair is made from a protein called keratin. Findings suggests that modern birds, reptiles, and mammals–as well as dinosaurs–shared an early common reptilian ancestor that had claws built from keratin more than 300 million years ago. Keratin evolved into strands of hair only in mammals.

Read more on National Geographic News. 

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Comments

  1. jbrock222
    December 31, 2008, 9:16 pm

    cool lizard !!!!!!!!

  2. esteban95
    January 22, 2009, 5:44 pm

    I have 9 lizards. That’s right! 9! 3 adults,6 babies.

  3. esteban95
    January 27, 2009, 4:47 pm

    Aww!he looks like MY Trigger!And my Lightning and my Sneaky,and my…and…and…and…and…and

  4. sonicguy22
    March 18, 2009, 5:51 pm

    weeeeeeeird *but cool**sorry im late*
    *sonicguy22*

  5. esteban95
    March 26, 2009, 9:30 pm

    I’ve actually got 10 since i posted that.

  6. esteban95
    April 15, 2009, 9:09 pm

    i’ve got a few eggs that are almost ready to hatch!

  7. photographyrocks247
    December 30, 2009, 7:20 pm

    I have one of those as pets!

  8. esteban95
    January 30, 2010, 4:29 pm

    i had 2 put down one of the babies :(

  9. 2whitie
    April 8, 2010, 5:03 pm

    I love anoles! Has anyone hereheard of a cuban knight anole?

  10. Anonymous
    November 14, 2010, 7:02 pm

    that is so cooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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