The uncertain worm lizard (Amphisbaena dubia) is a worm lizard species in the family Amphisbaenidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Amphisbaena dubia at the...
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Amphisbaena is a genus in the family Amphisbaenidae, commonly known as worm lizards. [citation needed] Over 100 species are placed in this diverse genus...
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creatures, including "snakes, various fantastic monsters, lizards, assorted amphibians, and worms", as recorded by Beauvais in his Mirror of Nature. In the...
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lindormber) of uncertain origin, possibly from a Proto-Germanic form akin to “linþawurmiz”. The name compounds Germanic lind with worm, the latter meaning...
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member of the order Squamata, the order that includes lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards). The study was conducted by performing high-resolution...
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(Varanus exanthematicus) * LC Common water monitor (Varanus salvator) * LC Worm lizards Florida wormlizard (Rhineura floridana) LC Brahminy blindsnake (Indotyphlops...
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Amphisbaena (worm lizards) Amphisbaena fuliginosa – Amphisbaena fuliginosa, spotted worm lizard Amphisbaena alba – Amphisbaena alba, red worm lizard Caecilia...
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with clearing the Colorado wilderness of nests of large and predatory "worms," one of the relatively better-known species of Chtorrans. Exploring a nest...
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, near human settlements) include: Calotes versicolor (oriental garden lizard) Eutropis macularia (bronze grass skink) Eutropis multifasciata (common...
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lizard[citation needed] saura—the lizard in general, possibly here intended to be the skink, since it is the other remaining major group of lizards....
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range is composed of limestone and dolomite. The origin of the name is uncertain. It may deliver from a forgotten Illyrian tribe name, or it is named after...
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for rímmah, "worms", the common rendering for two words: 'ãsh (Job 4:19), and sãs (Isaiah 51:8), the exact meaning of the former is uncertain, whereas by...
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very shortly afterwards), the next two albums, In the Wake of Poseidon and Lizard (both 1970), were recorded during a period of instability in the band's...
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Other commonly recognized paraphyletic groups include fish, monkeys, and lizards.[page needed] The term paraphyly, or paraphyletic, derives from the two...
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reason; other examples are cockroaches, locusts, waxworms and mealworms), worms (e.g. earthworms) and crustaceans, to small birds (e.g. chickens) and mammals...
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streams or ponds, where it feeds upon insects, spiders, worms, crabs, fish, frogs, and lizards. It is easily distinguishable from other birds in its range...
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for an eye. The seventh was far larger still, the vampiric energy sucking worm known as the Dweller. The Dweller consumed the other Trans-Organics before...
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Snake (section Legless lizards)
preying on small animals including lizards, frogs, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails, worms, and insects.: 81 Snakes cannot bite...
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nostrils of Ankylosaurus were compared to those of fossorial (digging) worm lizards and blind snakes by Arbour and Mallon in 2017, and though it was probably...
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Palestinians?" (Cockburn 1988, p. 496) "The Arabs are worms. You find them everywhere like worms, underground as well as above." Hazan continued: "Until...
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Aberdeen Bestiary (section Worms (Vermes))
within the Aviarium manuscript was missing the original patron remains uncertain but it appears less likely to be a church member. The Aberdeen Bestiary...
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different people as eating "fat white worms with blackish heads", and others as eating "land-crocodiles" and "green lizards". Ancient writers sometimes ascribed...
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Liushusaurus (category Cretaceous lizards)
related to Scleroglossa, a group that includes geckos, skinks, worm lizards, monitor lizards, and snakes. However, it is classified as a more basal member...
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"Ze Worm Whisper" – Daisy is working on her garden patch. She attributes the poor quality soil to the absence of worms. Hal transforms into ‘Ze Worm Whisperer’...
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2015 in reptile paleontology (section Lizards)
Alexander Pyron; Davide Pisani; Jacques A. Gauthier (2015). "Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction". Proceedings...
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2307/3338273. JSTOR 3338273. Duany, Jorge (1995). "Neither Golden Exile nor Dirty Worm: Ethnic Identity in Recent Cuban-American Novels". Cuban Studies. 23: 168...
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2016 in reptile paleontology (section Lizards)
Twelve specimens of lizards (including stem-gekkotans, crown-agamids, a lacertid, a putative stem-chamaeleonid and squamates of uncertain phylogenetic placement...
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as sauropods (/ˈsɔːrəpɒdz/; from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs. Sauropods had very long necks...
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put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. Not all earthworms become two worms when cut in half. Only a limited number of earthworm species are capable...
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Introduced predators such as feral cats prey on it and several parasitic worms infect it. Perhaps seen by Amerigo Vespucci in 1503, it was first formally...
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