![]() A few years ago Franklin was driving through Baja with his wife searching for the critters, and pulled up to two cowboys. OK, it’s not true-the creature, a reptile called the Mexican mole lizard, is in fact totally adorable and completely harmless-but it sure is a powerful myth. “And it’ll rip your guts, shred them to pieces.” The death is slow, not to mention embarrassing. Should you be foolish enough to drop trou and answer the call of nature in the wilderness, you’ll find the beast will “enter your body by the most unspeakable means,” said Carl Franklin, a herpetologist at the University of Texas at Arlington. It’s an opportunist, said to attack humans at their most vulnerable moment: potty time. Down in Baja California there crawls a beast so bizarre, so cruel, so foul, that the mere mention of it sends locals scurrying.
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