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Salt Lake City: Utah has named a venomous lizard with black and yellow beadlike scales as its state reptile. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill that adds the Gila monster to the list of state symbols, honoring it among things like the beehive, the Dutch oven, elk and seagulls. GOP state Rep. Lowry Snow sponsored the bill after students at Lava Ridge Intermediate School in Santa Clara lobbied for it. “I have so much enjoyed these emails from these fourth-graders,” Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler said during debate. “I did not know the Gila monster stored its fat in its tail, and I felt like we had something in common.”