Driveway Monstrosity

[richard123vmt]

I freaked out when I saw this headless thing. It is even weirder than it looks. What I take to be the tail seems to have boring teeth like a tunnel machine.
The reason I was freaked was because I had never seen anything like it. On my land there are a supply a tiny lizards which are like grass hoppers in their behavior and occasionally something a little bigger but a conventional lizard. This thing looks like a baby alligator.
I soon realized what happened. A buzzard dropped it. Weird delicacy it may be, but the buzzards are in the know where to find such merchandise. Maybe it was a lake creature. A creature out of place with its environment takes on a note of horror. Maybe the buzzard was giving it to me as a gift. I have noticed the two of them lately--which is unusual. Usually I only see them high in the sky. Well, I can't agree with buzzard tastes.

[Chickensoup]

dang! you really did a number on that thing!! what it is? I don't know, but someone else may...
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[sb001]

Southern alligator lizard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_alligator_lizard

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[67rustavenger]

Looks like what I used to call a "Blue Belly Lizard." Back when I lived in the state anyway.
I think SB001 hit the mark on what it is.
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[calvinater]

Probably tastes like shrimp .
Barbie q it up let is know.
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[mark tucker]

down hear we just call those skinks. they range in color and size.some well over a foot long&2" in dia. I saw one last month that had a bright chevy orange head, almost like it was spray painted like that, probably just a male in season looking for a few seasonal feemales. I have a few thousand lizards in my yard, along with frogs,skinks,snakes , gecko'sand leggless lizzards.also micro snakes, those little suckers are so awesome and tiny.the past 3 weeks they are all hatching from their eggs.3/4" long lizards almost everywhere. I have 2 or 3 skinks that sit and watch me work, one came into the shop with me for about a hour and just watched. we have recently got some godzilla lizzards around hear,I hope they dont eat the others.

[KTPhil]

Here skinks are a different lizard... I catch them in or around our swimming pool... they slither like a snake, hardly using their stubby legs. Beautiful creatures.

We used to catch the occasional alligator lizard on a nearby hill while we were looking for regular western fence lizards we would catch and release. Prize (bragging rights) if we caught an alligator lizard, or even a rarer horned toad (which as kids we called horny toads without knowing the joke). The latter are gone from the area... I think they are protected now.

[67rustavenger]

I saw some Horned Toads on Mt. Lemon in Tucson a bunch of years ago while on a day hike there. The young ones are almost white and about the size of a nickle.

56 years ago. A 4yo boy in California found the Horned Toad his dad brought home. That boy put the toad in his pocket and inadvertently damaged the toad beyond repair.
His mom found it dead. When going through that little boys pockets before tossing the pants in the laundry.
56 years later. My mother still talks about that day.
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[Zundfolge1432]

Back in 1989 a visit to Cozumel revealed rather large iguanas everywhere, they appeared to be as common as squirrels here. On a trip back there 10 years ago they are gone. I asked one of the locals and he said two hurricanes and people cooking and eating them decimated the population. VWs had also mostly disappeared, in 1989 you could rent new one from Avis, we did😀