I didn't realize there were so many species of lizards - there are over 6000!
I would believe it, just think about how many birds evolved from lizard species
Antarctica is the only continent with no lizards!
Honestly and that's only as far as we know, imagine if there was some cold water giant lizard under the ice!
True, plus they can be really small, only a few centimeters long, so easy to hide.
In Florida we have these newts that look and move like snakes with little legs
Newt
A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae. The terrestrial juvenile phase is called an eft. Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, newts are semiaquatic, alternating between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Not all aquatic salamanders are considered newts, however. More than 100 known species of newts are found in North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia. Newts metamorphose through three distinct developmental life stages: aquatic larva, terrestrial juvenile (eft), and adult. Adult newts have lizard-like bodies and return
where I think we really learn about race across the divisions that we have.
And so I really resolved from some lessons out of my experience that I wanted to try to keep it at a storytelling level and follow the stories wherever they went. I just didn't know that there would be so many of them or that they would be from such broad context; that I'd be chronicling King's relationship with Rabbi Abraham Heschel or something like--you know, these are things that I didn't--had no way