Salad lizard becomes new class pet

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey elementary school science class has a new pet after a lizard was discovered in a student’s salad after being refrigerated for days.

Riverside Elementary School science teacher Mark Eastburn told NJ.com the 3-inch green anole lizard was found in a bundle of tatsoi greens last week by a kindergartner.

The lizard had been cold and lifeless after being confined in a...