Archive for the 'lizards' Category

Holly Madison has lizard fever…either that or she has a new Bingo buddy!

The former Girl Next Door was snapped with a new lizard friend, an iguana, outside the famed Hamburger Mary's in WeHo.

The iguana even got some kissie faces…we want kissie faces too!

Check out more pics (below) of Holly and her new pal!

[Image via WENN.]

We've never seen a lizard go ham before…but this one is looking pretty pig-like!

A pet lizard sees his buddy behind a glass and there is only one thing on his mind…

HOW DO I GET OVER THERE?!?!?!?! LOLz!

So, he decides to do the world's fastest tap dance and let's just say…he doesn't get very far!

In New York City, a vet has been accused of dumping the bodies of euthanized pets along a highway!

That's terrible!

His clients paid him to euthanize then cremate their pets, not toss them onto the road

Researchers in the Andes have discovered a brand new lizard species.

It is a semi-aquatic reptile, named Potamites montanicola and it can grow to about 2.5 inches long.

Lizards aren't warm blooded, so they need a heat source, like the sun, a warm rock, or warm animal, to warm their blood and stay alive.

What is confusing scientists is that these lizards somehow are surviving in the cold Andes mountains.

After researchers spotted only one and they realized that it looked so different from other species in the area that it might be a new species, so they began an immediate search.

A researcher said:

"During the day we didn't find any, but at night we found several individuals, males and females, running and swimming in the stream.

That was a great moment for us."

They have found and photographed them but they still need to answer the question of how the lizards can survive when the mountain temperature drops to about 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit at night.

For now, all we can say is, welcome to the world of classified species, Potamites montanicola.

[Image courtesy Germán Chávez.]

In Puerto Rico, there are literally more iguanas than people.

They outnumber them 4 million to 3.9 million.

The secretary of their Department of Natural Resources said:

"This is a very big problem. We have to attack it. It has impacted structures, the economy, crops and the ecosystem."

The iguana can grow up to 6 feet and live up to 20 years!!

That's crazy.

It started in the 1970s when iguana owners started to realize their 'too large' lizards and now their population has exploded.

They occupy airport runways, burrow under buildings (ruining the foundation) and cause blackouts after building their nests near the warmth of electric plants.

So they plan to hunt the iguanas and export their meat.

Many government high ups in Puerto Rico believe this will not only thin out the population, it will bring in much needed money to the country, currently in a recession.

We don't think killing is the answer. Hopefully conservationists will find a humane way to deal with the problem.

Ha! He looks like a cartoon character!

What was on the phone?

A horror movie?

A fly eating a chameleon in some cruel twist of fate?

What scares a lizard? We may never know.

Whoa!

That seriously looks like a dinosaur.

And that kid is just sitting there comfortably eating his kix.

The iguana could really just get bored of kix and swallow that kid whole in one bite.

What a brave little guy.