enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pygopodidae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygopodidae

    Legless lizards are often killed due to their similar appearance to snakes. [6] A number of external characteristics can be used to distinguish legless lizards (including the hooded scaly-foot) from snakes: [8] [6] [7] Flap-footed lizards have vestigial hind limbs. Legless lizards have broad, fleshy tongues, dissimilar from the forked tongues ...

  3. Legless lizard - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard

    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]

  4. Anguinae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguinae

    Anguinae is a subfamily of legless lizards in the family Anguidae, commonly called glass lizards, glass snakes or slow worms. The first two names come from the fact their tails easily break or snap off. Members of Anguinae are native to North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

  5. Is that a snake or one of NC’s three legless lizards? Here’s ...

    www.aol.com/snake-one-nc-three-legless-144042754...

    How to tell a glass lizard from a snake. There are several physical characteristics that differentiate snakes and legless lizards: Glass lizards in North Carolina have ear openings on the sides of ...

  6. Legless mountain creature with ‘collar’ found under rock in ...

    www.aol.com/news/legless-mountain-creature...

    Photos show the Serra da Neve lance-skink which looks like a cross between a worm and a snake. Its body has a pinkish coloring with a darker brown band running down the length of its back.

  7. Burton's legless lizard - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton's_legless_lizard

    Burton's legless lizard (Lialis burtonis) is a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae. The species lacks forelegs and has only rudimentary hind legs. [2] Pygopodid lizards are also referred to as "legless lizards", [3] "flap-footed lizards" [4] and "snake-lizards". [5] This species is native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. [6]

  8. Skink - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skink

    Skinks' skulls are covered by substantial bony scales, usually matching up in shape and size, while overlapping. [4] Other genera, such as Neoseps, have reduced limbs and fewer than five toes on each foot. In such species, their locomotion resembles that of snakes more than that of lizards with well-developed limbs. As a general rule, the ...

  9. Amphisbaenia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphisbaenia

    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.