Glass lizards are named so because they can be quite fragile. A glass lizard will drop its tail in self defense and may do this without the tail even being touched! When they tail breaks, it may sometimes do so in pieces, which has led to the myth that these lizards can piece their tails back together again - though this isn't true. Instead, glass lizards grow a new tail that looks different than before. This has led to another common name for these animals: the horned snake. The snake part comes in because glass lizards are legless lizards! They have vestigial limbs or no limbs at all! Glass lizards are also known as glass snakes, but they aren't snakes - they're not even venomous! Give our video a watch to see how you can spot the differences! Scientific Name: Glass lizards are classified in the family Anguidae and their genera include: Dopasia, Hyalosaurus, Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus Range: Northern Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas Size: may be longer than 4 feet (1.22m) in largest species but on average about half this length Diet: insects, spiders, slugs, snails, worms, small mammals Lifespan: up to 20 years You can learn more on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/animalfactfiles Facebook - https://facebook.com/animalfactfiles --- We always do what we can to be as accurate as possible, but we're only human; if you catch a mistake please let us know and provide a link for verification! --- All images, videos and sound effects used herein are 1) public domain, 2) used under a Creative Commons license, 3) used with the express permission of the copyright holder, or 4) used under the parameters of Fair Use law. Credits via Youtube: Andreas Kay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejFXUV9tKIE Albanian Herper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_f_XTQW5A; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHvtfhXxtnQ Julio Maciel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0Nq-rdq6U Bee Royal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NClG92hV1HI Credits via Flickr: Peter Paplanus - https://www.flickr.com/photos/2ndpeter/48072177003; https://www.flickr.com/photos/2ndpeter/14238435636; https://www.flickr.com/photos/2ndpeter/8715002017 smashtonlee05 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/166087957@N06/49869103326 Hunter Desportes - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hdport/3952209756 Maximilian Paradiz - https://www.flickr.com/photos/maxorz/36829780753 Everglades National Park - https://www.flickr.com/photos/evergladesnps/9255037457 Nick Varvel - https://www.flickr.com/photos/156513724@N05/37314958534 pondhawk - https://www.flickr.com/photos/38686613@N08/4750899240; https://www.flickr.com/photos/38686613@N08/4750257621 Chris Barnes - https://www.flickr.com/photos/matlock-photo/5893459770 Morteza Johari - https://www.flickr.com/photos/145473584@N06/29940618105 Credits via Wiki Users: Nesnad - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheltopusik-uenozoo-dec24-2014.ogv Other attributions: sirmark - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/85391489 Luiz Puodziuz - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/88029239; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/88029257 Tobias Schonberg - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/93568829; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/93568864 Rachel Whitt - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/96372431 Websites used for research collection: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lizards/kYEqWKFuspkC https://www.google.com/books/edition/Alabama_Wildlife_Volume_5/KV4mDwAAQBAJ https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Field_Guide_to_Reptiles_Amphibians/32Rm7c-v_McC https://www.google.com/books/edition/Peterson_Field_Guide_to_Reptiles_and_Amp/NzdDCgAAQBAJ https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reptiles_of_South_Carolina/IWCGDwAAQBAJ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reptiles_of_North_America/vwNlAgAAQBAJ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Why_Dogs_Eat_Poop_and_Other_Useless_or_G/iK3ffI7iOKcC https://www.britannica.com/animal/glass-lizard https://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/ophven.htm https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lizards_of_the_World/HAb5DwAAQBAJ https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/278651 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koelliker%27s_glass_lizard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheltopusik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguidae This video is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)*. *you can find information about all the different types of CC licenses here: https://creativecommons.org/ **changes were made to the original Transcript: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/AnimalFactFiles
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