RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Thesaurus ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. agamid lizard- a lizard of the family Agamidae agamid lizard- relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a ...
This video that shows how a Southern Alligator Lizard can move on its belly by pulling itself slowly ahead with its front legs while tucking its back legs up against the body to hide them, or maybe just to get them out of the way. This behavior might be an attempt to fool any prospect...
The huge size and the elevated fin-like crests running over its back, makes it different from the other species in its group. Their tails and heads possess a high crest. The color of both the sexes is olive to brown, and they have stripes colored yellow, cream or white on the top lip...
This lizard gets its name from the fold of skin, also called a neck frill, that encircles its throat. Most of the time, this fold of skin lays flat like a superhero cape on the lizard’s body. However, when this reptile is threatened by a predator, it raises its neck frill, opens ...
they hold so fast to a branch on which they are sitting that they can only with difficulty be dislodged. Their movements are slow on the ground, and still more so in the water, where they are nearly helpless. As in ant-eaters, woodpeckers, or frogs, their tongue is the organ with whi...
As soon as it sees an opportunity to escape, the frilled-neck lizard simply runs to the safety of a nearby tree. The lizard lifts up its upper body and runs swiftly on its hind legs like humans. This unique frilled lizard running style enables it to run safely on uneven grounds covered...
He finally stops and does a push-up display, possibly to continue trying to entice her, or possibly to warn the photographer that this is his territory. A female fence lizard runs across a wall in Riverside County and encounters a male who pursues her. She rejects him and he runs to ...
The common basilisk is recognized not only by its large size but also by the fin-like crests that runs along its back. The basilisk’s color is mostly olive to olive-brown but sometimes it shows bright green. Young basilisks are thought to display vivid body with three prominent stripes o...
The bones of the right side of the skull are gone, but their impressions are preserved on the other slab and were not described in thefirst article detailing the find. The bones behind the eye that form a barrier for the jaw closing muscles are complete inTetrapodophis. But they are a...
In addition it rears up on the hind legs, hisses, thrashes its tail on the ground, and it might even jump towards an attacker hoping to scare them off. My dog was impressed. But if our Frilly Lizard realises that the attacker is not impressedit turns and runs for the nearest tree ...