REPTILIAN TUESDAY #43
We’re taking a hike in Southern Europe to find a lizard that looks like a snake! Yep folks, we’ve heard that there are lizards in the world that don’t have legs! Are you ready to go exploring?
MEET THE EUROPEAN GLASS LIZARD!
Range/Habitat: Southeast Europe-W. Asia/ dry grasslands, rocky areas
Diet: Carnivore: slugs, snails, invertebrates
Length: 3 ¼-4ft
Conservation Status: common
Fun Facts:
- European glass lizards are legless lizards.
- They are grey as juveniles and brown as adults.
- European glass lizards have movable eyelids.
- They are diurnal (active during the day).
- European glass lizards don’t just realize their tails, they shatter it. The tail falls off in pieces in order to fool their predators.
These cool lizards think they’re fooling everyone looking like a snake! They’re not fooling this elephant and horse though! How about you?
The Adventures of Ellie and Edmond 
I don’t get it. How then are they classified as lizards?
Speaking if snakes, heard about a 17dt python captured in the Everglades- wow!
We just saw the article on the python! They are very bad for the Everglades!
The Glass lizard has true eyelids like a lizard, snakes have none & they also have remnants of hip bones as part of their skeleton :)!
Oh! so is this a genetic mutation?
It is a case of evolution :)! They live all over the world. It’s called convergent evolution- when two separate species evolve similar attributes at the same time :)!