Work at Boston's Museum of Science isn't always glamorous. Someone's gotta clean the lizard boogers.

In a new behind-the-scenes video , a museum employee cheerfully shares their experience cleaning snot from the glass of Rocky the chuckwalla's enclosure.

The white stuff they are mopping up is no ordinary nasal mucus.

When the chukwalla 'goes achoo', it sneezes out salt. If the large lizard didn't do this, it would probably die of dehydration in the deserts of North America.

The specially salty snot is sometimes nicknamed 'snalt', as it contains potassium and sodium bicarbonate salts that dry as crystals. The species is often seen with white residue around its nostrils, a remnant of an earlier snort.

Without this mucosal mess, the large lizard might very well 'overdose'

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