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lizard

[liz-erd] / ˈlɪz ərd /




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A Sydney man who tried to post native lizards, dragons and other reptiles out of Australia in bags of popcorn and biscuit tins has been sentenced to eight years in jail, authorities said Tuesday.

From Barron's

"I filmed it with my friend Beau and we were in this cave, trying to catch lizards," he said.

From BBC

And the crickets and lizards and other small creatures that usually inhabited woods like this?

From Literature

It may have resembled a lizard, but it lived before reptiles and mammals branched into separate evolutionary paths, so it was not technically a reptile.

From Science Daily

It’s not exactly a chicken and dinosaur-egg question, but which came first, the mammal or the giant lizard?

From The Wall Street Journal