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  • noun Plural form of anguid.

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  • Coming eventually: agamas, tupuxuarids, fake Chinese turtles, temnospondyls for beginners, kinglets and the passerine supertree, more on sea snakes, anguids, giant eagles and plethodontids, those lost tree frogs, storks and (one day) rhinogradentians.

    Giant killers: macropredation in lions Darren Naish 2006

  • Coming eventually: agamas, tupuxuarids, fake Chinese turtles, temnospondyls for beginners, kinglets and the passerine supertree, more on sea snakes, anguids, giant eagles and plethodontids, those lost tree frogs, storks and (one day) rhinogradentians.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Squamates (lizards, snakes and kin) do a bit better, and would have featured even more on the blog if I’d gotten round to finishing the articles I’ve started on sea snakes, island-endemic lizards and anguids.

    Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part II) Darren Naish 2007

  • Squamates (lizards, snakes and kin) do a bit better, and would have featured even more on the blog if I’d gotten round to finishing the articles I’ve started on sea snakes, island-endemic lizards and anguids.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

  • This is an essentially random distribution within Squamata, so it’s certainly conceivable that groups like anguids might have evolved this ability too.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

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