The photo is of the survivor of the species. Cool looking little critter.
Posted on 02/20/2016 9:00:43 AM PST by JimSEA
Researchers have discovered a new species of extinct worm lizard in Texas and dubbed it the "Lone Star" lizard. The species -- the first known example of a worm lizard in Texas -- offers evidence that Texas acted as a subtropical refuge during one of the great cooling periods of the past.
Worm lizard is the common name for a group of reptiles called amphisbaenians, whose long bodies and reduced or absent limbs give them an earthworm-like appearance. The group includes extinct species as well as ones still living today. Solastella belonged to a subgroup called Rhineuridae, a group with only one living member -- the Florida worm lizard.
Stocker identified Solastella as a new species by analyzing fossilized skulls that she unearthed in the Devil's Graveyard Formation in West Texas. She found that Solastella lived during the Late Middle Eocene, a geologic period about 40 million years ago, and that its eye socket was fully enclosed, a feature lacking in all living amphisbaenians but present in extinct relatives.
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The photo is of the survivor of the species. Cool looking little critter.
I’m an ancient lone star lizard.
any relation to Graboids?
Now we have the lone star tick.
Worm lizards.
I used to drive by a bait shop on the way to the lake
and part of it’s sign had fallen off, it read...
Izards and vorms!
any relation to Graboids?
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...couldn’t just post one.
Quotes for
Walter Chang (Character)
from Tremors (1990)
Tremors (1990)
Walter Chang: Earl. Here’s some swiss cheese and some bullets.
Walter Chang: That’s what I like... Graboids. That’s it, Graboids!
Earl Bassett: Jesus, Walter.
Walter Chang: You’re gonna be sorry if you don’t give it a name.
If they tasted like chicken they’d probably be extinct.
“Tremors” is real!
So....it was a lounge lizard?
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