X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Lizard


Apep

As the personification of all that was evil, Apep was seen as a giant snake/serpent, or occasionally as a dragon in later years, leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Lizard.

Lizard

The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); it was the Latinisation of the French name Sauriens, coined by Alexandre Brongniart (1800) for an order of reptiles in the classification proposed by the author, containing lizards and crocodilians, later discovered not to be each other's closest relatives.

Lizard's tail

Crassula muscosa, also known as Rattail Crassula, Watch Chain, Zipper Plant, or Princess Pine, a succulent plant native to South Africa

Saururus cernuus, also known as Water-dragon or Swamp Root, a medicinal and ornamental plant native to eastern North America

Houttuynia cordata, also known as chameleon plant, heartleaf, fishwort, or bishop's weed, a herbaceous perennial plant native to Japan, Korea, southern China and Southeast Asia


Alepisauriformes

Alepisauriformes (meaning "lizard form without scales") is an extinct order of fish described by Regan in 1911.

American Kestrel

American Kestrels feed largely on small animals such as grasshoppers, dragonflies, lizards, mice, and voles.

Balochisaurus

Balochisaurus (meaning "Balochi lizard", for the Baloch tribes of Pakistan) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Pakistan.

Bartschi

Cyclura carinata bartschi, the Bartsch's iguana or Booby Cay iguana, a subspecies of lizard endemic to Booby Cay, in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Black girdled lizard

The black girdled lizard, Cordylus niger, is a medium-sized lizard restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a second, isolated population near Langebaan.

C. minutus

Chalcides minutus, the small three-toed skink, a lizard species found in Morocco and western Algeria

Calango

:For the lizard, see Tropidurus.

Calotes calotes

The Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes) is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka.

Chaohusaurus

It was closer in form to Cymbospondylus and Mixosaurus than more advanced genera like Ichthyosaurus: it did not have the dolphin-like form of later ichthyosaurs; it had a more lizard-like appearance.

Chungkingosaurus

Chungkingosaurus, meaning "Chongqing Lizard", is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic-age Upper Shaximiao Formation in what is now China.

Common House Gecko

In some places in India, it is believed that watching a lizard on the eve of Dhanteras is a good omen or a sign of prosperity.

Daspletosaurus

It was not until 1970 that the specimen was fully described by Dale Russell, who made it the type of a new genus, Daspletosaurus, from the Greek δασπλής (dasples, stem and connective vowel resulting in daspleto~) ("frightful") and σαυρος/sauros ("lizard").

Domeykosaurus

"Domeykosaurus" (meaning "Domeyko lizard", after 19th century scientist Ignacy Domeyko) is the informal name given to an undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

Draco norvillii

The lizard was recently rediscovered after 118 years in the Jeypore Reserve Forest by Mazedul Islam and Professor Prasanta Kumar Saikia of the Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology Laboratory of the Zoology Department, Gauhati University in 2012.

Flying Lizard Motorsports

After competing with Porsches since its inception, the Flying Lizard Motorsports team announced on November 11th, 2013 that it would partner with Audi Sport Customer Racing to campaign a two car Audi R8 LMS effort in the newly formed Tudor United SportsCar Championship GT Daytona Class.

Golfo-Dulce Anole

The Golfo-Dulce Anole or Many-scaled Anole, Norops polylepis (formerly "Anolis polylepis"), is a lizard endemic to the Gulf of Dulce area of Costa Rica.

Guayaguayare

The area along Guayaguayare Bay, between the Lizard River (originally Rio de Iguanas) and the Pilote River (Rio de Pilotas) was settled by French planters and their slaves in the late eighteenth century following the 1783 Cedula de Población.

Hyphalosaurus

Hyphalosaurus (meaning "submerged lizard") is a genus of freshwater aquatic reptiles which represent a major part of the Jehol Biota.

Jennifer Kimball

She sang and played at Boston's Lizard Lounge with musicians including guitarist Duke Levine, lap steel player Kevin Barry, drummer Bill Beard, bassist Dick Gates, and guest artists including Dennis Brennan, Kris Delmhorst, Rose Polenzani, Anne Heaton, and Rose Cousins.

Khetranisaurus

Khetranisaurus (meaning "Khetran lizard", for the Khetran people of Pakistan) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan (also spelled "Khateranisaurus" in some early reports).

Kingston Park, South Australia

Bird, animal and insects include the Harlequin Bird, Dicaeum Hirundinaceum, the Shingle-back Lizard, Trachyosaurus rugosus and the Trapdoor Spider.

Knuckle pads

Knuckle pads (also known as "Heloderma", meaning similar to the skin of the Gila monster lizard for which it is named) are circumscribed, keratotic, fibrous growths over the dorsa of the interphalangeal joints.

Kumi Lizard

The most recent reports both come from 1898, one describing a large reptile seen near Gisbourne, the other a huge creature akin to a monitor lizard which threatened a bushman in Arowhana before retreating into a Rata tree.

Lampione

laurentimulleri,(also found on Linosa) which is a subspecies of Maltese Wall Lizard, numerous migrating birds and the Armadillidium hirtum pelagicum, a land crustacean.

Lariosaurus

Discovered at Perledo on the Lake Como in 1830, it was named in 1847 by Curioni, its name meaning "Lizard from Lario", the ancient name of the lake.

Lee Fitzgerald

Their fieldwork concentrates on the ecological factors affecting reptiles, most notably the Tupinambis lizard and the dunes sagebrush lizard, Sceloporus arenicolus.

Little Eagle

Debus (1998) notes that their diet varies geographically; the diet in Northern Australia has a high proportion of birds, in the arid zone is mostly lizards, and in Southern Australia has a high proportion of juvenile rabbits.

Lizard Lick Towing

The show is a spin-off of the truTV series All Worked Up, and follows Ron, Amy, Bobby and their team of repossession agents in Wendell, North Carolina (the town that has jurisdiction over the Lizard Lick unincorporated area).

Lizard Lick, North Carolina

The television series (Lizard Lick Towing) following Ronnie and his company operations is called All Worked Up, and has a discussion forum, Ronnie's published poetry, interviews with the stars of the show, and further information including the scheduled show times.

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

In 2014, the Chris Davis' Lizard Man sighting was re-enacted on the television show Monsters and Mysteries in America.

Lounge lizard

In Buster Keaton's 1924 film "Sherlock, Jr.", Keaton plays a projectionist at a movie theater where the movie showing is "Hearts & Pearls or The Lounge Lizard's Lost Love".

Mangar

Mangar-kunjer-kunja, a lizard god who created humans in the Australian aboriginal mythology of the Aranda people

Monster Hunters

When they arrive at Midnight Mountain in Borneo, they are again attacked by the Lizard Men, who succeed in capturing Hurricane.

Montiserrat Ameiva

The Redonda Ground Lizard is darkly colored, similar to the Sombrero Ameiva and Censky's Ameiva that also live on small and barren Caribbean islands.

Mormon Mountains

The Mormon Mountains are home to several different species of lizards, and ground snakes, toads and bullfrogs can be found in the region.

Neodiapsida

In phylogenetic systematics they are variously defined as the common ancestor and all its descendants of Younginiforms and "crown diapsids" (the common ancestor of lizards, crocodilians and birds, and all their descendants) Callaway 1997, or all diapsids that are more closely related to Sauria than to Araeoscelidia (Laurin and Gauthier 2000).

Northern Bahamian rock iguana

The northern Bahamian rock iguana (Cyclura cychlura) is a species of lizard of the genus Cyclura that is found on the Andros and Exuma islands in the Bahamas.

Oceania ecozone

More recently, Guam's native bird and lizard species were decimated by the introduction of the Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) in the 1940s.

Pleistocene megafauna

Pleistocene Australia supported large Short-faced kangaroo (Procoptodon goliah), Diprotodon (a giant wombat), the Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), the flightless birds Genyornis and Dromornis, the 5-meter snake Wonambi and the giant lizard, the megalania.

Plesiosaurus

It was so-named ("near lizard") by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier.

Plotosaurus

Originally named Kolposaurus (meaning "bay lizard") by Berkeley paleontologist Charles Lewis Camp in 1942, it was changed to Plotosaurus in 1951 when Camp discovered the name had already been assigned to a type of nothosaur.

Podokesaurus

The generic name Podokesaurus is derived from Greek word podokes (ποδοκες) meaning "swift-footed", an epitheton often used by Homer in the Iliad to describe the hero Achilles, and sauros (σαυρος) meaning "lizard"; thus "swift-footed lizard".

San Lucan Skink

The San Lucan Skink (Plestiodon lagunensis) is a skink (a type of lizard) native to the Baja California peninsula.

Tethysaurus

The name means "Tethys' lizard of Nopsca", a reference to the Greek goddess of the sea Tethys (also the name of the Tethys Ocean, an ancient sea between southern Europe and northern Africa) and to the Hungarian paleontologist Baron Ferenc Nopsca, who made pioneering studies on Adriatic aquatic squamates.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes

Spider-Man battles various villains throughout the game - Beetle, Lizard, Mysterio, Alistair Smythe, Green Goblin, Scorpion, Venom, Doctor Octopus, and Carnage.

The Musical Dimension of Sleastak

The album title is a reference to the Sleestak, the lizard-like antagonists in the 1974 TV series Land of the Lost.

VX 69

vx 69 (aka vx "cheerleader" 69 or just vx, born Vincent Villalon) is a French singer who is best known as a founding member of the bands Punish Yourself, 1969 Was Fine, Le Cabaret de l'Impasse, Pinball Lizard & The Acid Kings, and 'Cheerleader 69.


see also