lizard

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A reptile with a long body, four legs, a tail, and usually scaly skin.

• A green lizard darted across the hot rocks.
• Many lizards can shed their tails to escape predators.
• We saw several lizards basking in the sun.
• Biologists studying island ecosystems have documented how the lizard population adapts rapidly to changes in predator abundance and food availability.
• The fossil record indicates that the lizard lineage diverged from other reptiles during the Triassic period approximately two hundred million years ago.
• Climate change threatens numerous lizard species that depend on specific temperature ranges for reproduction and metabolic regulation in their natural habitats.

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