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The Gila monster is a venomous lizard

Venom flows along grooved teeth rather than through a fang The lizard bites down and holds on, working the venom into the wound with a chewing motion. One component of its venom became the basis for a diabetes treatment. It spends most of its life underground in the desert southwest. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Venom flows along grooved teeth rather than through a fang. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a animals fact?: Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.