Gecko Sitting In Pupil's Salad Is Adopted By Class

A chilled Gecko sitting in a chilled salad found by kindergartner has become the class mascot. Story out of New Jersey, New York:

The three-inch (7.5-cm) critter went unnoticed for a few days in the refrigerator in Princeton, New Jersey, before Sally Mabon and her daughter Faye found its limp body while unwrapping a bunch of tatsoi, an Asian leaf, science teacher Mark Eastburn of Riverside Elementary School in Princeton said on Tuesday.

Warmth restored its energy and soon the anole lizard was on its way to Riverside Elementary School, where it caught "oohs" and "aahs" like flies, and quickly became the class pet.

Less Godzilla and more Geico Gecko, the juvenile lizard has been named "Green Fruit Loop" by the children.

"It's great because the kids are studying DNA and the anole is the only reptile to have its entire DNA code sequenced," Eastburn said. Cont.

Story from - Reuters