Advance Tickets on Sale for Lizards and the Komodo King at Shedd Aquarium!CHICAGO -- Meet Shedd's new toxic-drooling dragon and its reptile relatives at the new limited-time exhibit, Lizards and the Komodo King, opening Saturday, April 8. Come learn about why some lizards bark, how some walk on water and for the first time in Chicago, see a Komodo dragon Komodo dragon: see lizard; monitor. Komodo dragon Largest living lizard (Varanus komodoensis), a member of the monitor lizard family Varanidae. They live on Komodo Island and a few neighbouring islands in Indonesia. up close and in person. This special exhibit highlights a diverse collection of reptiles reptiles terrestrial or aquatic vertebrates which breathe air through lungs and have a skin covering of horny scales. They are poikilothermic, oviparous or ovoviviparous, and, if they have legs they are short and constructed solely for crawling. ranging from the tiny day gecko gecko (gĕk`ō), small or medium-sized lizard of the family Gekkonidae. The more than 300 species are distributed throughout the warm regions of the world, mostly in the Old World. Despite folklore to the contrary, their bite is not poisonous. to the world's longest lizard, the Lizard, The, peninsula, Cornwall, SW England. Its southern extremity (the southernmost point of Great Britain) is called Lizard Point or Lizard Head. The coast has colored serpentine rocks, small coves and bays, wave-hollowed caves, islets (e.g. crocodile monitor. Advance tickets on sale now through Ticketmaster. Avoid the lines, buy them now before it opens! Call the Shedd/Ticketmaster hotline at 312/559-0200 or visit www.ticketmaster.com for details. Lizards and the Komodo King opens Saturday, April 8 at 9 a.m. and runs through February 28, 2007. Lizards and the Komodo King is proudly presented by Motorola and the Motorola Foundation. Interactive media kits are available now. To request an interactive media kit for Lizards and the Komodo King, contact Melissa Holland at (312) 692-3330 or mholland@sheddaquarium.org or contact Roger Germann at (312) 692-3265 or rgermann@sheddaquarium.org. Media-only preview on Thursday, April 6 at 11 a.m. Leap at the chance to see the lizards for yourself! Come to Shedd Aquarium John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. on Thursday at 11 a.m. and check out Faust, the Komodo King and dozens of fascinating animals - from geckos GeckOS is an experimental operating system for MOS 6502 and compatible processors. It offers some Unix-like functionality including preemptive multitasking, multithreading, semaphores, signals, binary relocation, TCP/IP networking via SLIP and a 6502 standard library. that can curl up on a quarter to monitor lizards as long as a canoe. powered by Grassroots Newswire(TM) |
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