What's a Legless Lizard? | Serpents Surprise

Snakes and legless lizards may share a common ancestor and look similar, but they're two very different species of reptile. Here are some of those key differences to keep in mind.

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What's a Legless Lizard? | Serpents Surprise

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[Keyon_Wilson]

Imagine being a legless lizard and nobody wants to be your friend because they think you're a snake 😢🐍

[cedrickhernandez]

If they were named these days they will prolly be called "bootleg snakes"

[zoofari]

What's is a legless lizard?
Answer: a lizard with no legs

[yowlolstfu]

This is like playing as a Lizard on nightmare difficulty level

[goldenjade]

Idc if this is a legless lizard or what, if I ever see one, I'll still run away while screaming (T_T;)

[mchfrhnihsn]

Snake: who are you?
Legless: i'm you but weaker

[luqmankiani]

Me letting a snake devour my arm trying to figure out if it's a snake or a legless lizard? 🤔

[ardtytyron]

After seeing that many slithering snakes, I sure had a hard time convincing myself to keep my legs down on the floor from the bed..

[closertotruth]

Some lizards decided not to evolve to snake but some had decided.

[mariehanna]

In my country there was a myth that snakes can not move on cement floors and therefore can't get into our houses. Now this makes sense, the one who started this myth saw legless lizards

[Aggressivecheeseman]

The legless lizard:

“ *GOD LEFT ME UNFINISHEEED* “

[JwpGaming]

Their faces always look like they're "so done with this bs that is life" 😂

[davonchillakory]

So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. Genesis 3:14

[KsPerpective]

My brother and I have a legless lizard and he's super beautiful

[Gemna]

I own one of these as a pet (giant European) they are fascinating and seem much more intelligent than most of my other reptiles

[yukibanayogi]

Snake : "Who are you? You look vaguely familiar"

Legless Lizard : "I look stunning. I don't know about familiar, darling!"

[InvasionAnimation]

I'll save you two minutes, It's a freaking snake!

[FariasSPCapãoRedondo]

Snakelizard amazing NGW the best chanel You Tube animal✌😎

[randomnessanimation]

When you want to cosplay as something and you’re overqualified for the job

[dirgabuana]

I've known 4-legged snake in the past, but now we have legless lizard.