California Scientists Find Four New Species of Legless Lizards
Not snakes, apparently
California scientists have discovered four species of legless lizards hidden in unlikely habitats among central valley oil derricks, sand dunes at the end of a Los Angeles airport runway and other arid and desolate spaces.
The findings, announced in a publication of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University this week, brings the number of known snake-like lizard species living in California up from one to five.
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Legless lizards? You mean, snakes?
My first thought was that they finally got around to checking the statehouse in Sacramento.