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Are sloworms related to skinks?:

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Vickie Lizard
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Joined: 22 Apr 2007
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Posted: 23 Apr 2007

 I have been keeping some sloworms for my children to study, during this time we have found that they seem very similar to my pink tongued skink.

 I have heard that sloworms are actualy legless lizards, and on some individuals, we can see the remainder of leg buds. I was also wondering if anyone keeps glass lizards, which I believe to be related too.


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james4
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Posted: 24 Apr 2007
good question,i don know if they are related but cerainly the same as glass lizards.
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Alan Hyde
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Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Hi Vickie.
I'm no expert on this subject and have often pondered the same.
Looking at snake eyed skinks in Turkey I thought, "Is this a slow worm with tiny legs?"
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armata
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Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Throughout evolution leglessness has come and gone a few times; I think the Anguidae are a fifferent lineage than Scincidae; will have to check.
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st rick
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Posted: 24 Apr 2007
I remember coming across a Glass Lizard nearly 20 years ago in Corfu and it gave me quite a shock.  It looked like a Slow Worm that had been genetically modified by an evil Scientist and grown to about 3.5 feet long.

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