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• n  large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America

• Cindy! I'm gonna show Jay the iguana! .
• So we get to the zoo and they brought us inside the reptile house, so we saw iguanas and those amazing turtles that have been around for god knows how long, and like that.
• I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of .

• common iguana
• Iguana iguana

News & Articles

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• Alligator only part of menagerie of animals found in SoCal van
  A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was suspicious. When he heard two women were spotted near a Lancaster, Calif., intersection, and one of them was holding an alligator, he didn't buy it. "I'm thinking, 'Yeah, an alligator. OK,'" Deputy Michael Rust told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. "Maybe an iguana, but an alligator?" He investigated the report Tuesday morning and found not just a 4 ...
  June 7, 2013 - KTVU
• Lizard Named For Jim Morrison
  ColdWetDog writes "The LA Times has a quick article on a newly named giant lizard: 'An ancient plant eating lizard that looked like an iguana but was closer in size to a German shepherd has been named after Jim Morrison, the late troubled and charismatic lead singer of the Doors.The lizard's name was chosen by Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a hard-core ...
  June 6, 2013 - Slashdot
• UNL team identifies ancient lizard the size of a German shepherd
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln paleontologist Jason Head and several colleagues have identified such an iguana after studying a fossilized jawbone from 40 million years ago.
  June 5, 2013 - Omaha World-Herald

Quotes

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• Andrew Stoner in Sydney Morning Herald
  John Della Bosca has hit the Iguana jackpot courtesy of (Premier) Morris Iemma,Mr Stoner said. "This only confirms what we already knew - that Morris Iemma is a weak leader."
• Cherry Jones in The Courier News
  I love staying at a place across the river and walking to work,said Jones. "During Iguana was when the downtown flooded. That was an interesting experience."