LIZARDS

Lizards are reptiles closley related to snakes, like snakes some lizards are legless. Some large lizards resemble crocodiles. Many lizards vary in size, shape and color. There are over 3,800 different species of lizards, alot of people mistake lizards for salamanders, they are commonly called "Spring Lizards" or "Wood Lizards", they look like lizards but salamanders are not related. Lizards have dry, scaly skin and clawed toes. Salamanders are amphibians related to frogs, and they have moist skin and no scales or claws. Most lizards live in places where the ground never freezes, and those who live in cold areas have to hibernate. Lizard live in the tropics and warm area. Most lizards are found in deserts and other dry region. Lizards vary in size, the smallest one is a few inches or centimeters in lenght, but they can also be as big as the Komod Dragon, which is 9 to 10 feet and may wiegh nearly 300 pounds. Lizards have a variety of ways of moving. Millions of years ago liazrds swam in the sea, even today they will swim from one island to another. No present lizard today can fly, but a small group in Asia and the East Indies glide from tree to tree like flying squirrels, these lizards are able to spread out skin along either side of their body by moving several long ribs. Some geckos, lizards will spend most of there time in trees, they have claws that are retractable like cats. Other Geckos have suction like disks on there feet and are able to wall up walls and hang up side down on a roof or on a glass window. the beautiful coloured large-eyed little geckos are welcomed into homes, where they pursue flies, scorpions, mosquitoes and other pests. Gecko's are endowed with remarkable fibrous footpads, Geckos are able to scamper up a slippery wall or even across a ceiling on the trail of a fly.

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Legless Lizard

Bearded Dragons

Marine Iguana

Collard Lizard

KOMODO Dragons

5 Line Skink

Frilled headed Lizard

GECKO'S

Crocodile Lizard

Komodo dragon are one of the largest lizard. the komdo is harmless unless being dangerous to the reptile, it is about 3 meters long and weight about 200 pounds, the komdo dragon is known as a monitor lizard because it sits around watching things.

The Sungazer lizard is a 15-inche sun-lover from south Africa. it is one of the largest members of the Family of Clubtailed lizards that have large spiny scales that encircle their tails and line their back. When the sun-love it under attack, it defends itself by laying flat on its stomach with arms and legs pulled close to it's sides, leavein it's tough backside to be exposed, when a predator tries to grab the sun-lover it holds tightly to the surfaces it is on while the attacker trys to tunr the lizard over uncovering it soft stomach which is easily to bite through and kill the cun-lover.