Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The pink-tailed worm-lizard or granite worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella) is a rare legless lizard found in Australia. The animal looks like a combination of small snake and worm. Its total length is up to 14 cm. It has a pink tail and is white underneath. The head and neck are brown, and the rest of the top of the body is pale grey.
The Mallee worm-lizard (Aprasia inaurita), also known as the pink-nosed worm-lizard and the red-tailed worm-lizard, is a slender pygopid (legless lizard) species that is endemic to Australia, with recorded distribution across the four southern mainland states, although its distribution is restricted in Western Australia and New South Wales.
Amphisbaenia / æ m f ɪ s ˈ b iː n i ə / (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, [2] comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes.
A new species of legless lizard was found slithering along the slopes of Serra da Neve, the second-tallest mountain in Angola. ... the newly described Acontias mukwando has a pink ring around its ...
Aprasia inaurita Kluge, 1974 – mallee worm-lizard, red-tailed worm-lizard; Aprasia litorea Maryan, Bush & Adams, 2013 – Gnaraloo worm-lizard; Aprasia parapulchella Kluge, 1974 – granite worm-lizard, pink-tailed worm-lizard; Aprasia picturata L.A. Smith & Henry, 1999; Aprasia pseudopulchella Kluge, 1974 – Flinders Ranges worm-lizard
‘Snake’ on Outer Banks is actually legless lizard with detachable tail, experts say 911 caller reports alien spaceship in Durham. ‘Most likely cicadas,’ police say
These lizards are often distinguishable from snakes on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics: possessing eyelids, possessing external ear openings, lack of broad belly scales, notched rather than forked tongue, having two more-or-less-equal lungs, and/or having a very long tail (while snakes have a long body and short tail). [1]
According to the Huffington Post, the woman and her husband placed the lizard in a plastic bag and brought it back to the cafe to show it to the staff, who apologized and contacted the managers.