Most "Lizards" Are NOT True Lizards At All!

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  • @ClintsReptiles
    @ClintsReptiles  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Over 15 MINUTES of BONUS content from this video, exclusively for our Stinkin' Rad Fans on Patreon! Patreon is a great way to support Clint's Reptiles AND get awesome extras (including hundreds of other bonus videos)! www.patreon.com/posts/video-patreon-if-101794945

    • @HassanMohamed-rm1cb
      @HassanMohamed-rm1cb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @HassanMohamed-rm1cb
      @HassanMohamed-rm1cb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam 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
      @joecamel919 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @Drquimbaymatumbo
      @Drquimbaymatumbo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @indyreno2933 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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name for members of the family Echinosoricidae, since they are not rats at all, in fact, Insectivora is actually an outdated taxon, which is now replaced with six convergently evolved orders being Macroscelidea (Sengis and Fossil Relatives), Afrosoricida (Tenrecs, Potamoes, and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
    @malusignatius 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +797

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

    • @izyaq
      @izyaq 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

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

    • @Eisenwulf666
      @Eisenwulf666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

    • @sampagano205
      @sampagano205 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

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

    • @1ntense796
      @1ntense796 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Where do else do you think monitor lizards come from?

    • @teddnaing6851
      @teddnaing6851 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Make him do it under water.

  • @Exquailibur
    @Exquailibur 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    "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.

  • @corvins_cash
    @corvins_cash 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    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.

  • @farkasmactavish
    @farkasmactavish 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    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
      @whychoooseausername4763 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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
      @DrachenGothik666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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
      @nyeti7759 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @nicholaspost9017
    @nicholaspost9017 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    "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.

  • @Kasperhp7410
    @Kasperhp7410 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    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
      @JCEmotep 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      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
      @Kasperhp7410 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@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
      @CainXVII 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @Kasperhp7410
      @Kasperhp7410 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @userequaltoNull
      @userequaltoNull 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@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 😅

  • @Plant_Parenthood
    @Plant_Parenthood 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

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

  • @Dee-nonamnamrson8718
    @Dee-nonamnamrson8718 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    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
      @malusignatius 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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

    • @qa377
      @qa377 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

    • @malusignatius
      @malusignatius 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @DrachenGothik666
      @DrachenGothik666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @MEKCreations
    @MEKCreations 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    “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
      @semjart 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly why I love this channel 😂

  • @emmyali920
    @emmyali920 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    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!!

  • @skann9048
    @skann9048 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

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

    • @Ryuondo
      @Ryuondo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

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

    • @mischiefwargaming
      @mischiefwargaming 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      I wonder who'd be the hagfish of celebrities?

    • @carschmn
      @carschmn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too

    • @meisteremm
      @meisteremm 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@mischiefwargaming Bruno Mars.

    • @hilliard665
      @hilliard665 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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 TH-cam phylogeny ) then Jake Paul has to be in the celebrity clade

  • @legodrakie
    @legodrakie 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    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.

  • @lotus.b.lazuli2020
    @lotus.b.lazuli2020 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    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

  • @DatNinjaCow03
    @DatNinjaCow03 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    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
      @MEKCreations 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Gusgus thinks he is a lap dog so it works.

    • @DatNinjaCow03
      @DatNinjaCow03 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@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
      @Leyrann 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@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.

  • @DRRADSTONE
    @DRRADSTONE 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

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

  • @Oler-yx7xj
    @Oler-yx7xj 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +565

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

    • @ShnarkNarc69
      @ShnarkNarc69 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      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
      @mythguard6865 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      No silly that’s only politicians

    • @johnrichardson7629
      @johnrichardson7629 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Possibly a loungelizard?

    • @johnrichardson7629
      @johnrichardson7629 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      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
      @emmyali920 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

  • @the_newt_nest
    @the_newt_nest 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

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

  • @Planeta1951
    @Planeta1951 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +180

    We all know birds are the only true lizards.

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

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

    • @johannageisel5390
      @johannageisel5390 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

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

    • @ericafoster4368
      @ericafoster4368 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The only true living dinosaurs not lizards.

    • @jedavisLV426
      @jedavisLV426 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@ClintsReptilesthat's hilarious

    • @oleksiyprotas6376
      @oleksiyprotas6376 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

  • @gableweeb719
    @gableweeb719 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    "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
      @oxylepy2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

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

    • @YochevedDesigns
      @YochevedDesigns 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

    • @auroraasleep
      @auroraasleep 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

    • @markwynne725
      @markwynne725 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @ArjanKop
      @ArjanKop 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      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.

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Tuatara sits back and laughs uproariously.

  • @auroraasleep
    @auroraasleep 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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.

  • @FaelynDexter
    @FaelynDexter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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.

  • @OrchidNectar
    @OrchidNectar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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
      @AGiantTalkingLizard 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      We're still making them.

    • @AGiantTalkingLizard
      @AGiantTalkingLizard 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ClintsReptiles yay!

    • @AGiantTalkingLizard
      @AGiantTalkingLizard 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @eflarsen
    @eflarsen 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

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

    • @oxylepy2
      @oxylepy2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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

    • @eroero830
      @eroero830 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @zebedeemadness2672
      @zebedeemadness2672 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @MereMeerkat
      @MereMeerkat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @hokusai4687
      @hokusai4687 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @jorie42
    @jorie42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

  • @markiangooley
    @markiangooley 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    “You’re NOT a lizard, Harry!”

    • @BurningApple
      @BurningApple 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're a Synapsid, Harry!

  • @samrizzardi2213
    @samrizzardi2213 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    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
      @theotheseaeagle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @GLitiatc0
      @GLitiatc0 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @indyreno2933 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @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
      @samrizzardi2213 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @chelseakat
    @chelseakat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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

    • @nckojita
      @nckojita 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i think the best part is how completely unbothered he seems to be with all the handling he gets lol like dude is just chillin

  • @FinneasJedidiah
    @FinneasJedidiah 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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
      @danicoeMB 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @sydhenderson6753 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @aspennie
    @aspennie 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

  • @racerrouth6484
    @racerrouth6484 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

  • @Stothehighest
    @Stothehighest 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @brianlewis5692
    @brianlewis5692 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

  • @sampagano205
    @sampagano205 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @andrewscoppetta4944
    @andrewscoppetta4944 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    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 💀💀💀

  • @Jyiber
    @Jyiber 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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
      @DrachenGothik666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @HassanMohamed-rm1cb
    @HassanMohamed-rm1cb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam 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
      @michaellee4276 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @Brospokenerd424
      @Brospokenerd424 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A wastebin taxon​@@michaellee4276

    • @indyreno2933
      @indyreno2933 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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).

  • @apteropith
    @apteropith 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @tomsimpkins1211
    @tomsimpkins1211 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, I haven't enjoyed a video I didn't understand in quite a while! Brilliant energy, I can tell you love your work. Whatever it is.

  • @EpicMathTime
    @EpicMathTime 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @mcdongle8752
    @mcdongle8752 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @sunburstbasser
    @sunburstbasser 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to live in Kansas, and would spot many of those Racerunners in the summer. They really move!

  • @TigerStyleFanMIZ
    @TigerStyleFanMIZ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    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 TH-camrs who do phylogenies on plants. I would love to see one on snake plants.
    .

    • @aurelielagrange2173
      @aurelielagrange2173 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @DJFracus
      @DJFracus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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

  • @chickadeestevenson5440
    @chickadeestevenson5440 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

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

    • @zebedeemadness2672
      @zebedeemadness2672 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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
      @nationalsniper5413 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @nationalsniper5413 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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
      @zebedeemadness2672 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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
      @nationalsniper5413 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @t3hwaddledee
    @t3hwaddledee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @liam6nugget
    @liam6nugget 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

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

    • @DistanceTraveled
      @DistanceTraveled 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

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

    • @DJFracus
      @DJFracus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Thomasstearns42
    @Thomasstearns42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @LegitHoneybadger
    @LegitHoneybadger 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @d0pomein
    @d0pomein 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @HD-mp6yy
    @HD-mp6yy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just saw today a beautiful 40 cm long male Green European Lizard (Lacerta viridis) basking in my garden today and now he is here in the thumbnail.

  • @YaBoyIggy
    @YaBoyIggy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I find your videos so fascinating, Clint. As a phycologist, the idea of an artificial group is just so natural to me. I love seeing it in a completely different area!

    • @Dr.Ian-Plect
      @Dr.Ian-Plect 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "As a phycologist"
      - very suspect

  • @iluvtacos1231
    @iluvtacos1231 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Things heating up in the lizard Fandom.

  • @adamlax27
    @adamlax27 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @fuzsyskunk4252
    @fuzsyskunk4252 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @CyBromancer7562
    @CyBromancer7562 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @sreace723
    @sreace723 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @christopher-wolter
    @christopher-wolter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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 💃

  • @sqrt2295
    @sqrt2295 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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
      @DJFracus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @nationalsniper5413 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @DonaldLawrance-jx1mj
      @DonaldLawrance-jx1mj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Tuatara don’t look anything like lizards close up. Look at their eyes . They operate at low body temps are a way more ancient lineage than lizards actually. Related to plesiosaurs

  • @AshendrisSilvermist
    @AshendrisSilvermist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @sandrastreifel6452
    @sandrastreifel6452 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @TheBrewster320
    @TheBrewster320 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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!

  • @kezia8027
    @kezia8027 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "flip over lizards from any other group"
    Well if you insist Clint. From now on, you can call me The Lizard Flipper. Any time you've got a lizard that needs flipping, I'll be there.

  • @LEDewey_MD
    @LEDewey_MD 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @storey662
    @storey662 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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
      @ClintsReptiles  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @sydhenderson6753
    @sydhenderson6753 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm having a hard time picturing Gus Gus getting up on his hind legs and racing across the room, though I'm sure he's faster than he looks.

  • @talroitberg5913
    @talroitberg5913 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @hamishfox
    @hamishfox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @gemsht0ne
    @gemsht0ne 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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 🙏🏽

  • @cryssbestia6733
    @cryssbestia6733 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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?

  • @pastorbillychidester9309
    @pastorbillychidester9309 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @susanmartin3762
    @susanmartin3762 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @allenwalters8812
    @allenwalters8812 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @Boaman5435RedTailBoaLover
    @Boaman5435RedTailBoaLover 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @brainbandaid5802
    @brainbandaid5802 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @Chaz2303
    @Chaz2303 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Katness07
    @Katness07 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @larachaplauske8818
    @larachaplauske8818 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @bubbacharlietripp
    @bubbacharlietripp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Eriorguez
    @Eriorguez 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I tend to use lizard for the clade that includes gekkos, skinks, wall lizards, iguanians and anguiforms. If snakes and amphisbaenians end up as lizards, well, that's that. Perhaps even use lizard for crown lepidosaurs, so Dibamids are not the sole living non-lizard lepidosaurs, and call it a day.

  • @tobyihli9470
    @tobyihli9470 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @deadsakurastar
    @deadsakurastar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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?

  • @shoepanda
    @shoepanda 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    oh man, I can't wait for this documentary

  • @sarsmask
    @sarsmask 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @randigo9992
    @randigo9992 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @DodderingOldMan
    @DodderingOldMan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Jo1day
    @Jo1day 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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)

  • @toubi4316
    @toubi4316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @fiveelevenevan
    @fiveelevenevan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how these videos confuse me to end, but I still feel like I've learned.

  • @Kris_not_Chris
    @Kris_not_Chris 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    super excited for lepidosaur exploration, especially toxicofera hopefully

  • @annataymond9529
    @annataymond9529 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @foggypaipa
    @foggypaipa 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @lilyayora
    @lilyayora 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OBSESSED with that skull. I've been around hazelworms my entire life but I didn't know they had teeth like that! Interestingly, they do drop their tails.

  • @MrWulfgarr
    @MrWulfgarr 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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).

  • @WhitzWolf92
    @WhitzWolf92 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This group highlights why I've started to think terms like "lizard", or "fish", or "dinosaur", or "monkey" are best relegated to conversational use, referring to morphology that fits the most common understanding of those creatures ("if it quacks like a duck..." etc.). These terms were coined without our modern understanding of genetics so I don't see a need to retroactively crowbar that understanding into their usage. When we want to discuss phylogenetics, we can use the proper name(s) of the clade(s) to make the difference and relationships clear.
    But then I'm an engineer and language nerd, not a biologist, so I may well have a different perspective when it comes to when and how to use technical terminology versus colloquial.

  • @flamesofgames3986
    @flamesofgames3986 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It would be really cool if you were to go through the phylogenetics of the family of ants I know a bit about lots of the genera but it would be cool to see how they are all related?

  • @charlesdavis2891
    @charlesdavis2891 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7 years, thank you for your dedication to education!

  • @charlesdavis2891
    @charlesdavis2891 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pure gold at the end lol

  • @gaufrid1956
    @gaufrid1956 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really hope that the botiki (house geckoes) weren't too offended by this video, Clint. Greetings from Mindanao Philippines! My adult daughter in Australia loves your channel (which is how I learned about it). She has a pet female Western Bearded Dragon. She would love to have a tegu, but they are out of her price range.