Talk:Lizard

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is it true that lizard tails, if grabbed WILL NOT BREAK OFF? I have always heard this - but am not sure if true.... 69.3.16.194 23:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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Does anyone have a source for the Harry Greene quote: "These papers threaten to radically ... venom evolution"? I googled for it and only found that phrase in instances of the text of this article. Harry Greene is in fact a Cornell herpetologist, but it would be nice to have a source for the quote. -- bethenco 21:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

the page http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/taxa.html#Sau has them catalogued differently. which is right? SpookyMulder 13:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This bit: A brief courtship and mating season occurs between mid-May and early-June. Twenty days after breeding, the female will lay from 2-21 creamy-white leathery eggs in a burrow beneath a large rock. The young hatch 2-3 months later, averaging 3-4 inches in length seems awfully specific to refer to ALL lizards. --DM, 15 Sep 2005

Yeh, mating season sure can't be global! --moxon 10:53, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. It seems unlikely those sentences are true of all lizards, so I removed them. -- bethenco 21:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Some external links are broken. Is it better to link to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Anthony+Herrel%27s+lizard+page instead of the actual link(which is broken.) Yukon guy 19:42, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

1 Number of fingers and toes?
2 Which one is this?
3 Legless Lizards
4 Extinct Species?
5 Lizard species
6 Lizard eggs

[edit] Number of fingers and toes?

How many fingers and toes do lizards have (excluding, of course, legless lizards)? I've looked at some pictures, and all the ones I could see clearly seemed to have five fingers on each hand. I have not been able to count the toes. Can someone help? And how much variation is there on this point? SpectrumDT 18:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

There is a lot of variation on this point, as some lizards are "on their way" towards becoming legless. Although those with fully formed legs and feet have five. --liquidGhoul 00:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Which one is this?

I've just obtained and uploaded a CC image of a lizard. Can somebody identify the exact type this lizard so that a descriptive caption could be used and put on the appropriate page? Thanks. --Oblivious 09:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Genus Agama? Is it a juvenile? Do we know where it's from? - Samsara (talk • contribs) 21:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Its from the Maldives and they never grow bigger than this. --Oblivious 21:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Calotes versicolor. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 22:04, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legless Lizards

Found one in the backyard in our home on the Gold Coast, Australia. Does anyone know how to keep these alive in captivity? Mainly what foods they eat, how to set up habitat, etc.

[edit] Extinct Species?

The extinct species Mosasauridae is included in the species categories -- but aren't there many types of dinosaur-era lizards that should also be included (if that one is)?

Most of those "dinosaur era lizards" are not actually true lizards, they're reptiles of other orders not related to lizards. Mosasaurs, on the other hand, actually were true marine lizards.Dinoguy2 01:33, 23 November 2006 (UTC)