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Monsters These animals use scary looks to their advantage.


Desert Monster Its black head pokes out between the rocks. Its eyes glitter. Its forked tongue fl ickers. For months, this monster hasn’t eaten. Now it’s hungry and ready to hunt. It’s a Gila monster. T is lizard fl icks its tongue out


again. Like many lizards, it uses its tongue to smell. It smells prey. T e lizard quickly runs from the


rocks. It finds a nest of baby birds. It grabs a baby bird. Its jaws crush down. Venom drips from its sharp teeth. It swallows the bird. T e Gila monster eats all the birds.


T en it hunts for more. When full, it crawls back to its den in the rocks.


Star of Scares A diff erent kind of monster lives under the ground. Its sharp claws poke through the dirt. T en 22 pink tentacles sweep the dirt away. A star-nosed mole is on the move. T e mole’s slimy tentacles touch


everything in reach. T at’s bad news for an earthworm. T e tentacles wrap around it. It eats the worm like a piece of spaghetti.


Cold as Ice Another monster lives deep in the cold ocean. It’s the wolffish. Jagged teeth poke out of its mouth. More teeth grow in its throat. T is monster grabs a prickly sea


urchin with its teeth. It crunches down on the urchin’s sharp spines. T e urchin’s hard shell cracks. T en the wolffish eats the soſt insides. T e wolffish may be ugly, but it has an important job. Wolffish make the urchin


population smaller. T at’s a good Gila monster


thing. Too many sea urchins can destroy ocean habitats.


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