lizard
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These include the northern quoll, whose numbers have been decreasing, the goanna lizard and the ghost bat.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
I discussed lizard people and societal collapse with true believers.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Popular culture often describes that tension as a contest between two parts of the brain: a newer, more advanced center for rational thought and an ancient "lizard brain" that runs on instinct.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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
It was unclear who exactly had been cursed, the lizard or the French, but a permanent-seeming curse it turned out to be, to the dismay of both reptile and country.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
She's also given up on cycling to the local parks where she previously enjoyed taking close-up photos of the bugs, lizards and toads.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
They did not find any drugs, but vipers, rattlesnakes and other species of snakes and lizards, including iguanas, hidden in shampoo and cream bottles, plastic containers and balls of socks.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Fossil sites containing dinosaurs also frequently preserve animals that were much smaller, including mammals, lizards, amphibians, and other vertebrates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
On the shelves stood glass bottles filled with preserved animals: snakes, lizards, toads, and many creatures Jule could not identify.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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