Celebrate National Reptile Awareness Day with the Amazing Basilisk Lizard! 🦎 Did you know these incredible lizards have the jaw-dropping Creature Power of being able to run on water? 🌊 They can dash across the surface at speeds of up to 5 feet per second (8 km/h). Their large back feet have special toe fringes that create air bubbles, helping them stay afloat. Basilisks are also underwater escape artists, diving beneath the surface to evade predators. Amazingly, baby basilisks can start runnin

The reptile most associated with the running-on-water behaviour is the Green Basilisk or the Jesus lizard. Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Susanta Nanda shared a video and explained how the animal is able to do this. “Physics at work…" he wrote, further stating that “surface tension, the force created when water molecules cling together, becomes dominant, allowing small animals to walk effortlessly over water bodies." #lizard #jesus #animals #nature #wondersofnature #viralvideo https://www.