#amphisbaena

[herpsandbirds]

White-bellied Worm Lizard aka Red Worm Lizard (Amphisbaena alba), family Amphisbaenidae, found across much of South America

Legless lizard.

photographs by Dick Bartlett

[chimeride]

Amphisbaena, the 232nd Known One.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My modest collection of vintage two-faced and two-headed people and creatures.

[homemadehorrors]

:3----------:3

[korvidking]

work sketches again

[snototter]

A speckled worm-lizard (Amphisbaena fuliginosa) in French Guinea, South America

by Bernard Dupont

[tiredvanitas]

Watchful and very long serpent for the first day of swordtember 🐍

Using MukhlisNur‘s themes from twitter

[lunellum]

I've dipped into woodcuts, this one is a little guy based on the Aberdeen Bestiary amphisbaena. (Though I used my tattoo for reference but that one's also based on the bestiary...)

I printed a little over a sheet of them, think I'll cut them out and paste them on some things.

[thomastapir]

Dinocephalosaurus orientalis Tanysnakeous! Ophidostropheus...? I suggest a new name, Gradius salamphisbaena pyrouboros.

[scolop98]

VOTE MEXICAN WORM LIZARD FOR THE @weirdanimal-tournament

In what will likely be a trend of me shunning comparatively well-known species for my obscure favorites (and my anti-fish bias), the Mexican mole lizard is so much weirder than it looks. It may be winning its poll, but that margin is too close for comfort so I felt the need to infodump.

The Mexican Mole Lizard is a species of of amphisbaena, named after the two-headed serpent of legend (which is awesome) and long thought to be not-lizards, a separate order of reptile on par with lizards and snakes (some evidence suggests that they are technically a type of lizard, but in the same way that snakes are lizards. I argue that like snakes, they don’t have lizard vibes and that this is irrelevant for the purposes of this tournament)

All amphisbaenas are limbless EXCEPT for this guy and the two other members of this genus. Are they the most basal/primitive amphisbaenas, who split off from the rest and never hopped onto the no-leg fad? Nope, they’re nested smack in the middle of the amphisbaena family tree. I don’t know if they actually re-evolved limbs from nothing, but that’s certainly what it seems like. If so, that would be insane - how do you just re-evolve your goddamn limbs?!?

In addition, Mexican Mole Lizards, like other large amphisbaenas, are predators that usually eat worms and insects but will also go after lizards and rodents, attacking above-ground prey from below like a sci-fi monster. Other species of amphisbaena which regularly feed on small vertebrates have been known to rip chunks of flesh out of their prey. Look at the terrifying, huge-ass teeth hiding inside these adorable little faces

Vote Mexican Mole Lizard for the Weird Animal Tournament! It is truly A Creature™️ and deserves to be celebrate as such on this platform. How could you say no to this face?

[fuckabledragonoftheday]

Today's fuckable dragon of the day is...

AMPHISBAENA from GREEK MYTHOLOGY

[herpsandbirds]

White-bellied Worm Lizard aka Red Worm Lizard (Amphisbaena alba), family Amphisbaenidae, Trinidad, West Indies

Legless lizard.

photographs by Rainer Deo

[drinksss]

New video! Is the speckled worm lizard the cure for HIV/AIDS?

[creatorofstarrealm]

Inktober Day 27: Beast

A Star princess possessed by a monstrous celestial God who created the universe.

Day 26 - Day 28

[homemadehorrors]

When you forget for a sec you have two heads.

[konjikiumbra]

A fragment of my artwork "Amphisbaena"