Lizards with no limbs, discovered

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28 May 2007, 5:59 pm

I thought this was odd but interesting: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_ ... ess_lizard

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28 May 2007, 6:26 pm

"New limbless lizard species discovered" Yet still no sign of Osama bin Laden

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28 May 2007, 7:00 pm

I wonder how they decided that it wasn't just a snake.

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28 May 2007, 7:34 pm

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I wonder how they decided that it wasn't just a snake.

Maybe they started with a lizard template instead of a snake. So the first thing they noticed was that it was a lizard.

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28 May 2007, 7:39 pm

There are other species of legless lizards, such as the Glass Lizard. Lizards have external ear openings and movable eyelids, Snakes do not. (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

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28 May 2007, 7:41 pm

Limbless lizards are not a new discovery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_snake

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