lizard
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Scientists have identified a new species of lizard living in the high mountain forests of western Thailand.
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
Fish and Wildlife Service had not relied on the best scientific and commercial data available in adding the lizard to the list.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The village churchyard has become a haven for local wildlife - in particular slow worms, a non-venomous species of legless lizard often mistaken for snakes.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
He was a tall lizard, but he was also a wide lizard.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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Its frequent appearances in museum exhibitions and audiovisual productions about dinosaurs have also helped make it one of the best-known "terrible lizards" among the general public.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
From the director of ‘Tiger King,’ a new docuseries examines the cold-blooded, illegal trade in lizards and the like in the 1980s and the lives of those who facilitated it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
“The lizards have become smarter. They run faster now and hide under blocks of cement,” the boy who had climbed told Ugwu.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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