I hate spiders, but I like snakes. They are on every continent except Antarctica, which makes sense.
I thought St Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland too? Or is that a myth?
That is just a myth. There are even some legless lizards that look like snakes but they have some feature that snakes don't have.
Legless lizards! How bizarre! I really don't like snakes. I could never keep one as a pet. You?
Burton's legless lizard
Burton's legless lizard ("Lialis burtonis") is a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae. The species lacks forelegs and has only rudimentary hind legs. Pygopodid lizards are also referred to as "legless lizards", "flap-footed lizards" and "snake-lizards". This species is endemic to Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Etymology.
The specific name, "burtonis", is in honour of British army surgeon Edward Burton (1790–1867).
Taxonomy and
retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. Legless lizards resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).
Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller