Most "Lizards" Are NOT True Lizards At All!

You are probably familiar with "lizards" like geckos, skinks, monitors, iguanas, agamas, and tegus. Well what if I told you that none of those things are true lizards? And what if I told you that the closest relatives of true lizards look more like worms than they do like what you would tend to look like anything that you would think of as being a "lizard"? Should we look into this?
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[@ClintsReptiles]

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[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ Phylogeny Group Of Rodents 🐭🐹🦫🐁🐀🐿️ on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the 🦔Phylogeny Group Of Insectivores🦔 (Insectivora), such as Shrews, Moles, Hedgehogs, Solenodons, Gymnures, Moonrats, Desmans, the Extinct West Indian Shrews, Etc. on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@joecamel919]

R u going to do a video regarding the recent gila incident?

[@Drquimbaymatumbo]

Bird is a bird....a lizard is a lizard. I suppose all the re-classification in the scientific community is keeping many folk in jobs....

[@indyreno2933]

Moonrats and gymnures are actually the same thing, "gymnure" is the more correct name for members of the family Echinosoricidae, since they are not rats at all, in fact, Insectivora is actually an outdated taxon, which is now replaced with six convergently evolved orders being Macroscelidea (Sengis and Fossil Relatives), Afrosoricida (Tenrecs, Potamoes, and Kruipmols), Soricomorpha (Shrews, Moles, Desmans, and Solenodons), Erinaceomorpha (Hedgehogs and Gymnures), Scandentia (Banxrings), and Dermoptera (Colugos and Fossil Relatives), the largest gymnure species is the Giant Gymnure (Echinosorex gymnura).

[@malusignatius]

🤔 If a Tegu watches a security feed, does it become a monitor lizard? 🤔

[@izyaq]

I’m looking at this Tegu on my monitor, does that make it a monitor lizard also?

[@Eisenwulf666]

more like " monitoring" lizard, a painter is not the picture he is painting.

[@sampagano205]

No, tegus just don't care about security in the way monitors do.

[@1ntense796]

Where do else do you think monitor lizards come from?

[@teddnaing6851]

Make him do it under water.

[@Oler-yx7xj]

So snakes are lizards, but most lizards aren't. I wonder whether I am a lizard

[@ShnarkNarc69]

That's actually funny, because we are in the synapsids group that contains animals like dimetrodon, and all gorgonopsids. So while we aren't lizards. We might be related to some

[@mythguard6865]

No silly that’s only politicians

[@johnrichardson7629]

Possibly a loungelizard?

[@johnrichardson7629]

The assumption that you can't categorize things except along strict genealogical lines means, among other things, that there are no such thing as trees. You can name clades while also reserving the right to name morphotypes and ecotypes without disputing the reality of clades.

[@emmyali920]

I was once married to someone that was a snake, not a lizard. So maybe there are some lizard people out there too? :D

[@Exquailibur]

"They are legless, unless THEY HAVE CRAZY GIANT MOLE ARMS!" That is the type of animal that i love, legless unless they have giant crazy mole arms.

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

Gus gus's facial expression says "I'm so inconvenienced by your lifting me that I might write a letter to your local politician." 😂

[@malusignatius]

If by 'letter' you mean 'void my bowels all over the table'.

[@qa377]

@@malusignatiusHe will excrete his opinion all over the source of his inconvenience!

[@malusignatius]

@@qa377 You could say inconvenience make Gus Gus incontinent.

[@DrachenGothik666]

I love Gus Gus. He's so beautiful. I just wanna squoosh those cheeks!

[@Kasperhp7410]

In Danish, one of the everyday terms for lizard is "four-legs" and I'm pretty sure I've heard people calling a legless lizard, like a slow worm, a "legless four-leg."

[@JCEmotep]

As far as I understand it, "firben" (four-legs) technically only refers to lacertas, of which the only two species of native legged-lizards in Denmark, both belong to. The more generic Danish term corresponding to lizard would be "øgle".

[@Kasperhp7410]

@@JCEmotep Huh, curious. I never even knew that it is that specific. But then again, øgle is also loosly being used to discribe pretty much any reptile with legs, so it doesn't surprise me that much. :)

[@CainXVII]

Well in Sweden we often still call the slow worm a snake. Our two other lizards are true lizards anyways.

[@Kasperhp7410]

@@CainXVII Haha yea, we do both call the adder snake a worm though :)

[@userequaltoNull]

​@@Kasperhp7410Well, as a New Englander, I'd like to point out that our shared ancestors also called dragons "worms", so this state of affairs goes way back 😅

[@skann9048]

3:45 "we'll get to them" I can't wait for the video about the phylogeny of celebrities

[@Ryuondo]

I immediately though, AH HA! CLINT TOO THINKS THEY ARE LIZARD PEOPLE!

[@mischiefwargaming]

I wonder who'd be the hagfish of celebrities?

[@carschmn]

Me too

[@meisteremm]

​@@mischiefwargaming Bruno Mars.

[@hilliard665]

I'd say Jake Paul is the hag fish of celebrities. He doesn't look like a celebrity, or act like one, but if Mike Tyson is a celebrity (celeb from the sports phylogeny) and Mr beast is a celeb (from the KZbin phylogeny ) then Jake Paul has to be in the celebrity clade

[@Planeta1951]

We all know birds are the only true lizards.

[@ClintsReptiles]

A stellar take for those that want to watch the world burn!

[@johannageisel5390]

There is a reason why a feathered serpent exists...

[@ericafoster4368]

The only true living dinosaurs not lizards.

[@jedavisLV426]

​@@ClintsReptilesthat's hilarious

[@oleksiyprotas6376]

If dinosaurs are terrible lizzards, does it mean lizards are terrible dinosaurs and consequently birds? Dinoaves? 🤔

[@MEKCreations]

“What are you watching?” Just this rad guy rocking his giant not-lizard like a little baby and telling me why lizards aren’t lizards but snakes are lizards. 😂

[@semjart]

Exactly why I love this channel 😂

[@erichtomanek4739]

Tuatara sits back and laughs uproariously.

[@mothgirl326]

Squamates? What's that mean?

[@farkasmactavish]

I gotta say, the best work you do for the reptile owner community is that "Well, hi, there!" at the beginning. So many people see reptile owners as dark, edgy weirdos, and so many reptile owners internalize that impression and act like it! So not only are you dispelling that misconception at the beginning of every video with a single, cheery greeting, you're also modeling for other reptile owners that it's possible for them to be like that, too! Of course, if being a dark, edgy weirdo is what makes you genuinely happy, don't change a thing. :)

[@whychoooseausername4763]

I love reptiles and snakes and birds and exotics generally. I'm a cat owner of three years and would love to adopt a displaced exotic. I love seeing reptiles in the wild. I had a small Indian lizard (don't know what species) fall on me as a young child and my reaction was pure joy.

[@DrachenGothik666]

So many of us reptile aficionados are typified by an older guy with bald head or long hair, tattoos, long beard & black clothing with death metal logos; it's practically a stereotype, like we're all biker types who prefer scalies over fuzzies for pets. Just 'cuz we're supposedly "edgy" doesn't mean we can't love something. And, heck, not all of us even match that appearance, like Clint with his tie & Mormon ring. Frankly, I'm of the former personal appearance, yet, I normally have cats (I sadly can't afford to be the home of a lovely reptile, yet--one day, I hope to have some Garter snakes or a cute little Hognose, maybe a ball python--I'm partial to snakes, something that can handle being in a small space as I live in a small house). LOL

[@nyeti7759]

Dark, edgy weirdos move over. We got a keen, cheerful weirdo 😁

[@nicholaspost9017]

"Don't worry, because I have upsetting news for you today as well," he says with the biggest grin on his face. Clint is truly a treasure.

[@Plant_Parenthood]

I love how Clint's favourite reptile in the world is whichever reptile happens to be in front of him when he's talking!

[@the_newt_nest]

Where are the skinks, Clint, where are the skinks - this message has been brought to you by Skink Gang

[@themelonman6302]

Skink gang unite!

[@revol2933]

Skink gang unite 💪

[@ohhowfuckingoriginal]

Here 14:09

[@ohhowfuckingoriginal]

14:44

[@TheLaughingDove]

Skink skink skink

[@DRRADSTONE]

Cant wait for the feature length, going to get the whole family together for movie night.

[@legodrakie]

When I was a child I had an animal encyclopedia that included the Florida worm lizard in the snakes. I always thought it was weird, because it didn't look like a snake to me, but I didn't know what else it could be, now I finally do.

[@taleravenreads4826]

My nephew loved this video, though he wanted me to comment that WE are our lizards' most close relatives, because they are members of our family. :) Good teaching moment for what the scientific term "family" means, but that, yes, of course, our pets are our family members, even if not technically related. And also, you can hold the attention of a 5-year-old for over 20 minutes. I'm very impressed.

[@DatNinjaCow03]

I absolutely love that when you picked up GusGus in the beginning to show us his scales he was about as concerned as my dachshund about it, as in not at all and just along for the ride so long as it's with a person he trusts

[@MEKCreations]

Gusgus thinks he is a lap dog so it works.

[@DatNinjaCow03]

@@MEKCreations He is only a bit bigger than my (medium sized) dachshund, so that makes sense lol. Now my lab also thinks she's a lap dog, so I wonder if the same applies to bigger reptiles haha

[@Leyrann]

@@DatNinjaCow03 I can confirm that our Berner sennen dog also thought he was a lapdog, despite only barely being able to fit his _head_ on an average lap. Which was what he would usually settle for.

[@gableweeb719]

"If you go to Wikipedia, which has been demonstrated in the sciences to be more accurate than the average college textbook" What a diss.

[@oxylepy2]

In the immortal words of the coach from Letterkenny: IT'S * EMBARASSING

[@YochevedDesigns]

Considering that most college textbooks take their "research" from Wikipedia, it all comes full circle.

[@auroraasleep]

@@YochevedDesigns with a surcharge equal to the down payment on a house.

[@markwynne725]

Yeah, I'm not a college textbook author but I felt the burn

[@ArjanKop]

But not that strange. Deep phylogeny is in constant movement. By the time your textbook has left the printer, something is bound to have changed. Wiki is moderated by people who know their fields.

[@emmyali920]

I love the outtakes at the end! Gus seems like a great dude and watching you try to convince him to sit is hilarious...especially after that big poop he made. Love your videos and love love love lizards. They are such interesting creatures that are far more complex than we know. Thanks for another great video!!

[@markiangooley]

“You’re NOT a lizard, Harry!”

[@BurningApple]

You're a Synapsid, Harry!

[@eflarsen]

this taught me that i don't actually know what a lizard is.

[@oxylepy2]

The people who named lizards didn't know what lizards were. The taxonomists are the ultimate pot stirrers

[@eroero830]

You do know what a lizard is, it's a lizard.

[@zebedeemadness2672]

A true Lizard is a Squamate in the genus Lacerta, with Lacerta being Latin word for Lizard.

[@MereMeerkat]

Taxonomy gets pretty fuzzy around the edges sometimes. Nature does not read the textbooks!

[@hokusai4687]

Clint repeatedly teaches me I don’t really know what ANYTHING is…

[@lotus.b.lazuli2020]

This is fascinating. All of your videos remind me of this incredible wildlife binder series I had in the 90's growing up. Every month a big pack of new fold-out info cards would arrive and I'd learn all about so many obscure creatures I'd not seen again until I started binge watching this channel. This is ridiculously nostalgic. I do appreciate everyone who can donate to Patreon too, because youtube is basically becoming like public access TV in some regards, and if this many people support this channel, that gives me hope... also, if everyone treated one another the same way Clint treats lizards, non-lizards, snakes, frogs, ferrets and everything in between, then the world would be a better place. For reals. x

[@FaelynDexter]

I feel like Clint and his team need to think about updating the visuals of the opening. I love the theme and the style...but Clint has changed so much since the current one was filmed.

[@chelseakat]

Gus Gus is my favorite little dude ever it's always great to see him show up

[@jorie42]

I love Gus just hangin out, being held like a giant scaly baby.

[@samrizzardi2213]

I'd love to see more Euro lizard content, particularly Zootoca vivipara (the most widespread lizard) or Podarcis siculus (which has insane phenotypic diversity).

[@theotheseaeagle]

The common lizard (zootoca vivipara) is also the most northern lizard species. We get them in the UK

[@GLitiatc0]

Podarcis contain such a fun and easy species. What a shame people aren’t more into them.

[@KateeAngel]

Zootoca vivipara is the only one I've seen in the wild, they are so cute, including babies and pregnant females. Unfortunately they are hard to find among reptile pet lovers here

[@indyreno2933]

@theotheseaeagle, Zootoca vivipara is more correctly called the viviparous lizard as Lacerta agilis is more original than it, thus making Lacerta agilis the real "common lizard".

[@samrizzardi2213]

@@indyreno2933 Hey Reno, what are your thoughts on the taxonomy of Homo sapiens?

[@Jyiber]

You know what's funny, my grandma had a story about a giant worm thing that had 2 arms coming in and out of the ground when she was a child and it might have been one of the last of that family because this was Oklahoma in the 1930s.

[@DrachenGothik666]

I wonder if it may have been a subspecies of Mexican Mole lizard at an extreme Eastern limits of it's range, even though it's normally listed as a Baja California animal. There may have been a subspecies that lived further East that never got formally classified? Or a completely different species on it's own, just related. Extreme speculation on my part, & I'm not a biologist of any skill. Just an interested bystander.

[@auroraasleep]

My kid has been watching you since your third video, and you are basically his Jack Hanna. So, thank you for being one of the Critter Heroes of this generation.

[@andrewscoppetta4944]

5:03 that little guy lol “Why Clint? Why have you murdered me to show my belly scales? I’m coming mother! To death’s sweet embrace! I am slain!” So dramatic 💀💀💀

[@OrchidNectar]

I am super excited for these phylogeny videos but i was finding myself missing your best pet videos! I love anything you post though

[@AGiantTalkingLizard]

Yeah even though the poll mainly wanted to keep making them forever only 2% didn’t want to see them

[@ClintsReptiles]

We're still making them.

[@AGiantTalkingLizard]

@@ClintsReptiles yay!

[@AGiantTalkingLizard]

@@ClintsReptiles if I’m being honest it’s my favorite of ur content but it phylogenies are still really nice

[@brianlewis5692]

OR, all snakes are lizards, and all amphisbaenians are lizards, now all Squamates are therefore "Lizards"! ☺

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

I've just stopped using the term "lizard" as it seems about as accurate as Fish. I just call them Squamates.

[@zebedeemadness2672]

Genus Lacerta you can confidently call a Lizard, with Lacerta being Latin for Lizard, so are true lizards. I try not to use lizard where i don't have too, i don't class Geckos, Iguanas, Skinks, Monitors, Dragons (bearded, water, forest etc) as being lizards.

[@nationalsniper5413]

The world lizards basically means squamates except snakes. That is the meaning of the word, which works very well in language. Similar to how the world reptile does not include birds and the word amphibian does not includes reptiles, mammals and birds. Words like fish, amphibians, reptiles, Dinosaurs, lizards, work a lot better than terms like non tetropod fish, non amniote amphibians, non avian reptiles, non avian Dinosaurs and non serpent lizards. Everybody knows what you mean when you use the words I used at the beginning. When you say lizard or fish everybody in normal life knows exactly what you mean.

[@nationalsniper5413]

@@zebedeemadness2672 All these groups (gecko's, skinks, iguanas, agamids (which you call dragons) are lizards in langauge. That is what the world lizard means in language: the squamates apart from serpentes. It is also the world everybody knows. Similar to how the world reptile does not include birds. It just makes it a lot easier to talk about a certain selection of animals apart from saying a mouth flll like 'all the amphibians apart from the amniotes'. Even Clint has gecko's, iguanas, monitors, agamids in best pet lizard videos. Because they are all lizards in language but snakes are not. Despite some lizards being more closely related to snakes than other lizards.

[@zebedeemadness2672]

@@nationalsniper5413 Squamata (squamate) means scaled/having scales, NOT Lizard or Snake, the order Serpentes means Snake, the Family Lacertidae means Related to Lacerta / Lizard, with only the genus Lacerta (Latin for lizard) being true Lizards, the taxonomy of squamate has changed fairly recently, this is why most squamates are referred to a "lizards", but it's no longer just three tidy suborders. Of Lacertilia, the Lizards (not valid), Amphisbaenia, the Amphisbaenians (Not valid), Serpentes, the Snakes (still valid).

[@nationalsniper5413]

@@zebedeemadness2672 English is not my first language so perhaps you misunderstood. I know what squamata literally means, this group contain the lizards and snakes (and worm lizards if you consider them separate from lizards). All the other animals in squamata apart from serpentes are lizards. Despite some being more closely related to snakes than other lizards. I know lacerta means the 'real lizards'. The word lizard is a paraphyletic group in LANGUAGE, a word in the real world which means all the squamates except snakes. Like the word amphibian excluding the reptiles, mammals and birds despite these being direct and indirect descendants of amphibians. However nobody in real life is going to say things like non serpentes squamata or non amniote amphibians. In fact most people won't even know that you mean. Things might be totally different in scientific classification a few years from now, it changes all the time. 🙂Sometimes the classification or even the scientific name of an animal changes back and forth. So I just say things like they are in language in real life. When I say reptile or lizard everybody knows what I mean. Many people unfamiliar to reptiles don't even know what an agamid is, so when I say I have pygmy bearded dragons (litertally translated to dwarf beraded agamids from my language) I explain these are lizards. In which case they have a general idea. In monophyletic classification the words lizards and reptiles do not exist at all. Only squamata and sauropsia exist there. Paraphyletic terms are words that include a certain group of animals that are related but not all of their descendants. Like reptile and lizard. A bearded dragon is a lizard but not a 'true lizard'. However, outside of the monopheletic classification there is something called real life in which the worlds reptile and lizard are valid existing words (just check the dictionary) and have a clear meaning. There are tons of books about reptiles and lizards. Neither of them include birds and snakes respectively. And imagine a book about fish, will it have to include amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals as well? 😀 If you go to a reptile store or expo and you say you are looking for a nice pet non serpentes squamate as a pet people will look at you strange and not understand, when you say you are looking for a nice pet lizard they understand. That is the difference between words in real life and the theoretical monophyletic classification, which is useful in science, but not in real life. Even Clint has 'best lizard' videos.

[@liam6nugget]

Can we please call the Florida Worm Lizard the Shark Worm? It’s just so gloriously (in)accurate!

[@DistanceTraveled]

We are the shark bite capital of the world, too. So perfectly fitting. Florida always needs more chaos.

[@DJFracus]

at least they're more closely related to sharks than they are to annelid worms

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Shark-worm snake seems perfect, as it is none of them but looks like all of them.

[@iluvtacos1231]

Things heating up in the lizard Fandom.

[@racerrouth6484]

I'm working on getting a blue gus gus cannot wait!

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the 🦔Phylogeny Group Of Insectivores🦔 (Insectivora), such as Shrews, Moles, Hedgehogs, Solenodons, Gymnures, Moonrats, Desmans, the Extinct West Indian Shrews, Etc. on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@michaellee4276]

Uh oh.. in cladistics, Insectivora is the dirtiest of dirty words.

[@Brospokenerd424]

A wastebin taxon​@@michaellee4276

[@indyreno2933]

Moonrats and gymnures are actually the same thing, "gymnure" is the more correct name for members of the family Echinosoricidae, since they are not rats at all, in fact, Insectivora is actually an outdated taxon, which is now replaced with six convergently evolved orders being Macroscelidea (Sengis and Fossil Relatives), Afrosoricida (Tenrecs, Potamoes, and Kruipmols), Soricomorpha (Shrews, Moles, Desmans, and Solenodons), Erinaceomorpha (Hedgehogs and Gymnures), Scandentia (Banxrings), and Dermoptera (Colugos and Fossil Relatives), the largest gymnure species is the Giant Gymnure (Echinosorex gymnura).

[@FinneasJedidiah]

Hey Clint, i know this was probably just a 'fact' you picked up somewhere and have used without really thinking much about it, but there are 100% canaries in the canary islands. The canary islands are one of the main places that wild canaries are native to. (The others being the Azores and Madiera)

[@danicoeMB]

I was a bit confused about this myself, but I think it is just the set up for the joke. From what I understand, what we consider canaries are the domesticated lineages of Serinus canaria, which, as you say, are found on (and named after) the islands. I may be wrong though, as it would not be the first time that Clint says something that completely contradicts my understanding of a fact or topic. Either way, it was a good joke :)

[@sydhenderson6753]

@@danicoeMB And the islands are named for dogs, so canaries are dog birds.

[@Stothehighest]

If you ever do a Caribbean visit, do talk about the sphaeros, much love for our little micro geckos.

[@aspennie]

This channel helped me realize I want to go into zoology! Hopefully this year I’ll finally start college

[@sampagano205]

I've missed gus gus. Happy to see him again.

[@kodabear1996]

One of the biggest things I've learned from this channel is that I don't know what anything is. 😝 I wonder if there are any KZbinrs who do phylogenies on plants. I would love to see one on snake plants. .

[@aurelielagrange2173]

That’s not “Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t” doesn’t get into that but so worth watching,

[@DJFracus]

I have tried learning plant phylogeny on my own a bit, but it is so difficult to easily tell what kind of family a plant belongs to... animals are way easier in comparison I feel

[@fuzsyskunk4252]

I love this channel so much 💖 the most informative and wholesome thing on the internet 👌 And congratulations on 7 years! 🎉

[@sqrt2295]

For me it would make more sense to call all lepidosaurs lizards, like... who ever saw a tuatara for the first time and said "yep this is not a lizard", come on, it even has lizard scales and it sheds its tail, and being the sister clade of squamates means you don't have to include birds or any other extremely un-lizard-like animals as it would be if crocodiles were called lizards. So yeah, I declare tuataras should be lizards. Also finally Leo from the hit Adam Sandler movie "Leo" could be uncontroversially called a lizard.

[@DJFracus]

I think being able to say that tuataras are not lizards is a cool nod to their distinct lineage. I mean, you could still tell people about that even if you included them in the lizards, but I think the easiest and most elegant way to get the idea across is to simply not include the tuataras in the lizards.

[@nationalsniper5413]

@@DJFracus In fact in my language (Dutch) the name for Tuatara is also brughagedis, which translates to bridge lizard.

[@Boaman5435RedTailBoaLover]

Amazing Video Clint! I learned a lot of facts from this video. I learn so much from your channel. I loved reptiles before i stumbled upon your channel and I learned so many new interesting facts from your channel clint.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Mind blown. Subscribed! Thanks for an amazing coverage of this menagerie of species! ❤

[@apteropith]

those big face scales, along with the head shape, make it very easy to tell tegus apart from monitor lizards

[@mcdongle8752]

love the close up Gus-Gus cam!! it looks like hes on the verge of falling asleep when you pet him hes so cute

[@storey662]

I’ve only recently discovered your channel, but I’ve had a fascination with all things animal-adjacent for as long as I can remember. Your channel makes me feel like a kid again, constantly learning something new. And not just new, but something new that’s interesting and wonderful and FUN! Honestly, the fact that you’re not approached on a daily basis with offers to create TV shows or movies is insane to me. I’ve already binged a TON of your videos and have no intention of stopping until they’re all watched.. and honestly, I’ll probably just start from the top even then! Thank you for creating such a wonderful place for people like me and the rest of your subscribers. I’m so happy to have been recommended your channel, it’s a new favorite of mine. I hope you know how much we all appreciate you sharing your expertise with the rest of us. Learning from you is a gift, and I’m thrilled that I get to be one of the lucky few who receives that gift. ❤

[@ClintsReptiles]

Thank you for such a wonderful piece of encouragement! You'll never know how much comments like this help to keep me excited about what we are doing. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave that message.

[@d0pomein]

I'm from Florida, and have never heard of or seen a Florida Worm Lizard... But plenty of Iguana, which are not lizards. You learn something every day.

[@randayno934]

I’m so happy to see a video with my lizard in it! She’s an Italian wall lizard, a lacertidae p. Siculus, and it is very hard to find info on her online from a pet sense so she seems rather rare and any mention of her is exciting

[@ChimkinMcCluckie]

LOL @ your Canary Islands bit in the outtakes! ❤️ GusGus. Great video, Clint! I'd love to see you go abroad with your team and film documentaries.

[@christopher-wolter]

Clint! Just when I thought I couldn't be more captivated, you surprise us with such mind-bending insights about🦎! Hard not to poke fun at our misconceptions under your charismatic guidance 💃

[@daemon2426]

I personally view the term "lizard" to be synonymous with Squamata. But I think that's my brain wanting everything that's commonly called a lizard to be under the same umbrella

[@nationalsniper5413]

The world lizard in language means all squamata except serpentes (snakes). Like how the world reptile includes the sauropsida except birds and the world Dinosaur does not include birds. It makes sense to exclude some decedents otherwise groups would become to large the world amphibian would contain all reptiles and mammals as well and the word fish would include pretty much all vertebrates.

[@Exquailibur]

So a weird worm dude floated to the old world from North American and the floated back over to South America? That is so goofy.

[@sophiejones3554]

Other animals: walk from North America to South America. Amphisbaenids: Imma take the scenic route. Which is ironic for animals that barely have eyes.

[@Exquailibur]

@@sophiejones3554 yeah it really is

[@lazonfutura2872]

Thanks! I learn so much from these vids.

[@adamlax27]

Such a coincidence! I was at uni today and saw Lacerta written on a box and I was desperately trying to think where I knew lacerta from, and now I finally know it was from you ahah

[@TheBrewster320]

I’ve had my adult male tegu get out of his enclosure and get a hold of one of my box turtles. Luckily I caught him in the act and we were able to save the turtle, but the turtle looked like he got hit by a car… lung exposed and everything. Tegu jaws are no joke! Also do not trust a turtle’s shell to protect them from a tegu!

[@EpicMathTime]

I grew up in Louisiana and saw the blue tailed skinks very frequently. Extremely rural area. I could disturb some brush and there would be a good chance I'd see one. Their most shocking attribute wasn't the blue tail, it was their speed. They are FAST. They are so fast that I saw them as blue flashes countless times before learning what exactly they were. As in, when I learned what a skink was, I thought "oh, that's what I was seeing all of those times." Shockingly fast.

[@pastorbillychidester9309]

Clint, before I can get thru this video, I just want to say thank you for making me laugh and making this content fun. Appreciate you!

[@gemsht0ne]

That intro was AMAZING. Lizards, with such trepidation, excellent 👌🏽. ❤Can't get enough of this channel. I cant help but call it, Social Media at its finest 😊 ✌🏽 ! Thank you so much for the knowledge and education. Your passion really stands out, and I can't help but experience the joy that you do!! The love of animals, and the respect for them, by us humans.. its so important. And i genuinely appreciate your contribution to this cause via your social media ❤. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@deadsakurastar]

Clint, your videos are so amazing. Your passion for animals knows no limits.. Can you please tell us your favorite evolution journey? Or the one you find has the most interesting evolution / lineage story?

[@sarsmask]

17:08 Using those little arms to climb, too adorable

[@Chaz2303]

I’m so excited for that documentary!!!!!!!!

[@susanmartin3762]

😂🙂 the way he just hangs in your arms is so funny! So limp and content.

[@sreace723]

Chris Gillette just found a Florida worm lizard a few days ago at the sanctuary. It's the first time I'd seen one. Glad you did this today!

[@AlexRojas-db6yd]

No Gus Gus isn't a lizard. HE IS A KING

[@t3hwaddledee]

There are videos around of big old tegus running on two legs and they’re great. I love tegus.

[@ceciliagoncalves207]

GUS GUS! I cant get enough of this 'little' gentlemen. also, quick subject change, i'd loooove to see a video about hoofed animals (especially perissodactyla) i feel like theres always so much to learn about them! :)

[@sandrastreifel6452]

I love Gus Gus, he is so cooperative with handling! I look forward to visiting your Reptile Room to see him, but Utah is a long way from here!

[@IainG10]

I'm with Clint, with most Squamata being 'lizards'.

[@Jo1day]

I think the real question with Amphisbaenians is, if you had one as a pet, would you see it more or less than a Kenyan Sand boa? (If they even do well as pets)

[@talroitberg5913]

The amphisbaenid skill at 12:31 looks like something by H.R. Giger

[@chronagan]

On Swamp Wars they always made the tegus sound so mean and terrifying. Gusgus seems lovely.

[@tobyihli9470]

You had to look at your watch to know seven years? Love it!

[@Feranogame]

Wikipedia now lists amphisbaenians as legless lizards

[@allenwalters8812]

Around 1980 I found a legless lizard digging a hole near patoka lake in southern indiana. It was pink and had a shorter length compared to the ones you showed. Like a lot shorter. I always thought it was a weird snake till i saw this.

[@MrWulfgarr]

Hello there! you can find worm lizards in South America as far as down here in Ururguay. They are fairly common in houses with a lot of green and large wildish backyards, every now and then you'll have to save one from a cat or help it find some shade before they cook up in the sun. They do look a lot like the cuban ones, pinkish with a slightly darker tone on top, about a feet long, although you can also find Amphisbaena kingii, which is kinda the same but with a funnier snout. Down here people call them "viborita ciega" (blind little viper), and nobody could ever imagine them being related to tegus (which we also have aplenty, and are called "lagarto overo", meaining spotted lizard).

[@brainbandaid5802]

Will you ever do more ecological deep dives on specific niches of animals? Like I would be fascinated to know more about all the various types of worm lizards and how they operate in different environments. Or how the tegu fills its role differently than other large predatory lizards.

[@VidarJagrud]

Fantastic video as always! Would love to see a video where you talk about amphibians, espessialy salamanders!

[@blackkittycat15]

Gus Gus is so cute, but always have paper towels ready.

[@CyBromancer7562]

Clint, the fact you brought up the Space Slug and Mynock really makes me want to hear you cover Star Wars creatures, or just more fictional media wildlife! Whether that be individual species facts, phylogenies, the best pet, I am down!

[@Kris_not_Chris]

super excited for lepidosaur exploration, especially toxicofera hopefully

[@charlesdavis2891]

Pure gold at the end lol

[@randigo9992]

Make an episode about Viviparous Lizards cause they are unique on how they are capable to survive in Ireland and UK

[@cryssbestia6733]

I think I’m going to get addicted to this kind of videos, evolution is never boring Staying on the topic of lizards, will you ever talk about how every keeper's worst nightma… i mean, caudal autotomy evolved?

[@foggypaipa]

I would love to see a video about all the endemic species found in the caribbean (Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, etc.). There are so many amazing species that people don’t know much about.

[@shoepanda]

oh man, I can't wait for this documentary

[@Thomasstearns42]

I'm going to happily watch this video but man... I was really hyped for part 2 of the carnivora.

[@hamishfox]

I love the tiny legged stretch lizards so much. They are adorable and also I am going to exclusively call them that from now on.

[@larachaplauske8818]

😂 The wiggle! I cackled! I have to meet GusGus someday.

[@toubi4316]

I have a suggestion for Clint; a phylogeny for all known Agnathan (jawless) fishes, even the extinct taxa. Of course, us jawed fishes are a branch of Agnatha, but a video about Gnathostomate (jawed fish) phylogeny should probably be its own separate thing. You could get away with mentioning that us Gnathostomates are a branch of Agnatha, as opposed to a sister taxon. Though you would probably have to get into the phylogeny of the extinct taxa as well though, if you’re into that kind of thing.

[@Katness07]

I loved seeing the Desert Iguana. I used to have one as an education ambassador, along with a Common Chuckwalla. They both were so well behaved at events, people would ask if they were real. They have both passed, and I miss them.

[@DodderingOldMan]

Random comment, but I went to look at your Reptile Room and Google Maps, and holy crap, you have some amazing natural beauty around there. Where I am in Australia we're not exactly short of natural beauty, but we don't have mountains like that.

[@djcomfyfroggywitch]

Hey what’s up Clint, are you going to do any more pet rating videos or are just doing phylogeny now? I wanna see a pacman frog

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

12:37 Was the chestburster inspired by these little fellas?

[@emmabaker8678]

Hey Clint, where do Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis) that are legless lizards that we have in the UK fit in?

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Good news is I have seen a wild Florida Worm Lizard. The bad news is that it was accidentally cut in half by a shovel... 😢 Also I find it fascinating that the skull shape of some of the amphisbaenids looks a lot like caecilians despite being from entirely different clades.

[@annataymond9529]

Like how isopods and spiders aren’t actually bugs but also they’re totally bugs.

[@joecamel919]

Hey Clent! I think you should do a video regarding a recent insident a man had with his Gila Monster.

[@joecamel919]

Put people's worries to bed and address all the bad comments and remind people they are more likely to be killed by all other pets.