lizard
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The newly identified lizard appears to occupy only a narrow zone of high-altitude forest.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Goode had a pet tortoise when he was 6 and slept with a tegu lizard in his bed as a teen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Laura Parker, a lawyer for the center, said it can be hard for people to understand why a tiny lizard, or rare mussel species, or the lesser prairie chicken are worth preserving.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Yet the lizard brain making you gawk is shrieking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
They mostly played lacrosse, the elk, a game that would pretty much instantly kill any monitor lizard who tried to join in.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
In one case a baby Komodo dragon was hidden in plain sight, inside a crate of ordinary monitor lizards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In hard-hit areas like Le Porge, experts say insects will have perished en masse and larger creatures from toads to lizards will not have been spared either.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Adders, slow worms and common lizards will be the focus of protection efforts during a major peatland restoration project near Dumfries.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
People working with Perez would collect the reptiles including Mexican box turtles and Mexican beaded lizards, at from an airport in Ciudad Juárez, then move them by car over the border to El Paso.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
From the outside, it presented a stone facade carved in a pattern of lizards and pomegranates.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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