This lil lizard has some decent speed
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/walking-on-water-the-jesus-lizard/13212When you talk about walking on water, you’re in the territory of myth, magic and religious miracles, right? Wrong. What’s more, it’s not just little critters like pond skaters that can perform this amazing exploit; an animal as large as two feet long also has the dancing feet to pull off the incredible feat too. Dim the lights please as we introduce the basilisk lizard – aka the Jesus Lizard. Real rock n’ roll.
John Lennon famously got swamped in controversy when he was quoted saying the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”, but this superstar of an animal lets its actions do the talking. Named after Christianity’s central figure because of a shared reputation for being able to do what others need yachts and jet skis to do, the Jesus Lizard can more accurately be said to run across the water’s surface layer.
