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Lizards: Their Evolution, Habitats, and Characteristics

This quiz tests knowledge about various aspects of lizards, including their fossil periods, classifications, communication methods, and distinctive characteristics.

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1 What period do the fossils of the Lizard come from?

2 What domain does Lizard belong to?

3 Vision, including color vision, is particularly well developed in most lizards, and most communicate with body language or bright colors on their bodies as well as with ________.

4 What does the following picture show?  Gekko gecko in Thailand   Fossil mosasaur Prognathodon, a varanid   Close-up of the head of the legless fossorial amphisbaenid Rhineura   Feral Jackson's Chameleon from a population introduced to Hawaii in the 1970s

5 What kind of animal is a Lizard?

6 The retention of the basic 'reptilian' ________ body form by lizards makes it tempting to assume any similar animal, alive or extinct, is also a lizard.

7 What does the following picture show?  Feral Jackson's Chameleon from a population introduced to Hawaii in the 1970s   Anoles mating, Gainesville, FL   Underside of a Thorny devil, an agamid, Western Australia

8 Some extinct ________ reached great size.

9 What does the following picture show?  Gekko gecko in Thailand   Underside of a Thorny devil, an agamid, Western Australia   Komodo dragons on Rinca   The Eastern blue-tongued lizard, a scincomorph

10 The venom of the ________ and beaded lizard is not usually deadly but they can inflict extremely painful bites due to powerful jaws.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Black Spiny-tailed Iguana (pictured) of Central America is the world's fastest lizard, being clocked at 21.7 miles (34.9 km) per hour.
  • the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres.
  • the diet of the Gold-whiskered Barbet (video shown) includes papaya and lizards.
  • young Heliobolus lugubris lizards scare off predators by imitating certain acid-squirting ground beetles.
  • the lizard Trachylepis maculata is known only from three specimens of doubtful provenance collected in the 1800s.
  • several fossils of the recently described Early Cretaceous lizard Liushusaurus preserve scales, pigmentation, claw sheaths, cartilage, and small bones that make up the hemipenis.
  • Acteosaurus tommasinii, a species of aquatic lizard from the upper Cretaceous, is similar to mosasauroids and modern snakes.
  • a trio of pet Mexican Spinytailed Iguanas released on Gasparilla Island, Florida by a resident in the 1970s has led to a current population explosion of over 12,000 lizards.
  • apart from eating smaller lizards and amphibians, the Central American coral snake also feeds on other snakes.
  • femoral pores are a part of a secretory gland found on the thighs of certain lizards which release pheromones to attract mates or mark territory.
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