The reptile lived next door to a pizzeria in Cocoa Beach, Florida (USA) and, apparently, used to feast on leftover pizza every day. The result? Its interior contained a ball of feces that brushed 80% of its total body mass .
A team of Florida biologists performed a CT scan of the animal, revealing that the reptile, which they initially thought was ready to lay eggs, was carrying a huge fecal ball made up of its unusual diet of insects, sand and pizza grease.
Curly-tailed lizards, Leiocephalus carinatus, are famous omnivores that eat just about anything that moves (or even doesn't move). The funny thing is that, in this case, the lizard carried a huge mass, which represented 78.5% of its body mass due to its picturesque diet.
This is the worst case of constipation ever recorded , as the record was previously held by a Burmese python with a ball of poop that made up 13% of its body mass. However, this unprecedented discovery is tragic, since the animal would certainly be really upset, so it was euthanized and, according to the study published in the Herpetological Review, a post-mortem dissection revealed that "its internal organs they had visibly atrophied, especially the liver and ovaries. "
