Tag: lizards

So does that mean Gila monsters are the only venomous lizards? Thanks for clearing up the whole venom/toxic bacteria thing!

bunjywunjy:

that is. a question guaranteed to start at least three nasty fights at any herpetology conference, but gila monsters and mexican beaded lizards are closely related and truly venomous.
there’s a lot of contention about the monitor lizard family, which seems to have some venom also but. there is debate.

Ah yes, SO MUCH ARGUING. In the 20 years I’ve been in love with komodos, scientists have changed their minds SO MANY times.

I am excited to see the new Previous Scientists Are Idiots articles, Bunjy! As of 2009, they’d gone back to “We Have PROVEN There Is Venom!” I hadn’t heard that they’d disproved it a second (third? nth?) time!

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tuesdayisfordancing:

pervocracy:

hoh my gosh I only get five?  okay here goes:

frill neck lizard! he expand!  he’s named Chlamydosaurus which is pretty bad ass right there.  and it’s just so cool that this is a real animal that really exists in the world

flying lizard! she also expand, but different!  she’s named Draco volans so again A+++ scientific nomenclature.  she is extra cool because she flies with her ribs!  wings have been invented so many times in nature – bird wings are compressed hands, bat wings are expanded hands, pterosaur wings were fingers, flying fish wings are fins, bug wings are their own thing – and this is a whole nother way to make a wing!

new Mexico whiptail lizard! she is an entire race of bad ass lesbian lizards who do their thing without any males!  just a 100% female species that doesn’t need sperm to make babies.  and let’s be clear: they have sex.  they don’t exchange gametes, but they do have sex.  god speed you awesome little lesbian lizards

basilisk lizard!  he is also called the Jesus Christ lizard because he legit runs on water!  that’s just a thing he can… do!  also look at him, he looks amazing.  also you looked at him so you’re a rock now, sorry about that.

Jackson’s chameleon!  because he is a God Damned Tricera Tops.

except he changes color and his eyes move independently and he has a sweet crest and a prehensile tail and gives live birth, so he is more like a Triceratops with extra features.  look at his little feet. I love him.

there are many more lizards I couldn’t even fit in here!  there are lizards that squirt blood out of their eyes and lizards that look like earthworms and lizards that are ten feet long and we haven’t even talked about prehistoric lizards which is a whole nother ballgame of amazingness!  oh man I LOVE LIZARDS but you asked for just five and it was hard

@kiragecko !!!

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anarchodecompression:

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65-percent-puns:

PLEASE TURN YOUR SOUND ON

MOTHER LET ME FIGHT

I am fucking crying

It’s the last few seconds that really got me crying from laughing so hard!

[Video shows a bearded dragon on a hardwood floor. The lizard is bobbing their head and their neck is dark – both signs of aggression. They keep trying to race across the floor and attack, but their claws slip on the hardwood. The claws make a loud “skitter skitter skitter” sound as the lizard’s legs wildly move, but they slip and slide forward slowly. 

When they get too far, the camera operator grabs them and returns them to their starting place, saying “No.” This happens several times, and causes the camera operator to laugh.

A final scene show the first lizard skittering towards another bearded dragon, who’s also acting aggressive. First lizard finally gets on top of the second to attack, and the person lifts them off, saying, “Hey hey hey, uh uh.”