All this rain, the sheer volume of water that's been flowing over my gutters has got me thinking about, well water. The very stuff vital for our survival.

I am sure we all know a few amazing facts about the liquid but here's my take on the wet stuff and a few incredible creatures that have evolved novel ways of using it.

Our water is mostly trapped in solid form as ice, such as at the Antarctic where the ice sheet is around 2km thick, or in liquid form in our vast oceans and in the atmosphere as a gas.

After all, various dinosaur species trod the earth for over 180 million years – plenty of time to drink long and deep and well pass (or piss) it on.

By utilising a special groove in the mouth, it shoots high-powered droplets of water to dislodge potential prey that will fall into the water to be consumed.

It has taken fluid dynamics experts years to work out quite how the droplet packs enough of a punch to dislodge its prey. In essence the first part of the droplets leaves the mouth at a slower speed that the back end of it. So as the first droplets arrive on target the faster last droplets accelerate into the first, thus increasing the size and velocity at just the right moment.

Some 60% of the frog's weight may be water that is stored mostly in the bladder.

With slight pressure (give it a squeeze) that stored water is squirted out and is drinkable. It is well documented that by tapping the ground to "feel" a chamber or spotting identifying marks on the ground they have been dug up by indigenous desert dwellers for a drink!

The huge beast in the video is Dominator - he very, very nearly got our guide's hand. One moment of distraction and the huge creature decided on a larger meal than the chicken carcass that was on offer. It's only a minute long – worth watching to the very end.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miEJFPx54Q.

It uses a minute network of tiny channels between the scales to draw water upwards towards the mouth. It can stand in a puddle and draw water up its legs along the body towards its mouth. With little gulps it can drink the lifesaving liquid, fortunate really as its mouth is so highly specialised for ant gathering it cannot drink from the ground as most other lizards would.

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