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Luristan newt
I live in shallow mountain streams of Zagros Mountains
in Iran. Some say I am very attractive because of my
striking, colourful skin. My name is Luristan newt.
Bio Length: 10–14 cm; Lifespan: not know
n
Blast from the Mr Colourful
past
I have black and white patches on my body,
The Luristan newt’s family with an orange stripe. My belly is fiery
tree dates back to almost orange. This colouration warns predators
two hundred million years. that I may be poisonous—which I am—and
that they should not eat me. I give out a bitter
Its first ancestors were smell when I am disturbed. This also keeps
born thirty million years predators away.
after the dinosaurs.
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I live in shallow mountain streams of Zagros Mountains
in Iran. Some say I am very attractive because of my
striking, colourful skin. My name is Luristan newt.
Bio Length: 10–14 cm; Lifespan: not know
n
Blast from the Mr Colourful
past
I have black and white patches on my body,
The Luristan newt’s family with an orange stripe. My belly is fiery
tree dates back to almost orange. This colouration warns predators
two hundred million years. that I may be poisonous—which I am—and
that they should not eat me. I give out a bitter
Its first ancestors were smell when I am disturbed. This also keeps
born thirty million years predators away.
after the dinosaurs.
26–27
