A green lizard nicknamed "Green Fruit Loop" has become a class pet in a New Jersey school after it was found in a pupil's salad.PHOTO: REUTERS.
NEW YORK: A tiny green lizard found by a New Jersey kindergarten student in a bundle of chilled salad greens at home has wriggled its way into the hearts of an entire elementary school class, which has adopted it as a mascot.
The 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, said science teacher Mark Eastburn of Riverside Elementary School in Princeton on Tuesday.
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