Okay...this is the most terrifying animal I've ever seen in my life:

[Hosnon]

That shit looks like it is straight out of Hell. The eyes...wow...

(Photo from msnbc.com)

[skygazer]

1. Um.... it's a lizard

It has eyes like a lizard.

[Hosnon]

2. No shit it's a lizard. But most lizards I see look like this:

Nowhere close to the same eyes.

[mix]

3. these cold dead eyes scare me more

[Hosnon]

5. Sharks have always looked dumb to me.

Not that they aren't dangerous, but that expression does not creep me out nearly as much as the lizard's does. Hell, the shark is practically smiling.

[mix]

7. to me that lizard is peaceful and trippy

[Hosnon]

8. I guess everyone is different. Looks like the spawn of Satan to me... nt.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. These cold dead eyes scared me for 8 years-

[mix]

10. me too, they express a particular density and aggression nt

[betharina]

4. a snake with legs? nt

[Hosnon]

6. Maybe that's a big part of it (the mobility). The picture of the snake with legs from a few days

ago also creeped me out (even if it was fake).

[merh]

11. why not, there are lizards without legs.

Glass Lizard - Glass Snake - Legless Lizard

To those not familiar with them, glass lizards in the genus Ophiosaurus (literally, snake -lizard ) look rather like a snake with ears and blinking eyes. Careful inspection of the vent area in some species will show tiny spurs, similar to a boa or python. Related to the alligator lizards (Gerrhonotus), their head and body shape are reminiscent of those species, including the conical teeth and lateral fold. They are very un-snakelike when held, being firm in the body like an alligator lizard or large skink, rather than the softly supple body associated with snakes.

http://www.anapsid.org/legless.html

These are the kind that live around my area.




I had no idea what they were, I thought they were snakes, they scared the heck out of me as they were slimmy and many - lots of nests.

Then come to find out, they are harmless lizards.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Hi merh!

I think that snake is beautiful (and I don't say that about snakes).

[merh]

14. The photo in the OP?

Or the photo in my post?

The one in my post is a lizard, with no legs.

You get used to 'em after awhile.

:hi:

[Tanuki]

19. Merh, do you happen to live on the Outer Banks?

That's the only place I have ever seen glass snake lizrds, and I saw quite a few there.
:hi:

[merh]

21. no, not the Outer Banks.

I live on the MS Gulf Coast on a bay.

Plenty of the legless lizards around here. I'll never forget the time I had hired a kid to mow my yard. He came to do the job and I had to run a quick errand so I left for a few minutes. By the time I came back, his mother was here, walking beside him as he mowed with a gig in hand. There were several dead legless lizard bodies floating on the top of the bay.

The boy had come across a nest of the legless lizards and the thought they were snakes. He called his mother and she came and killed several and was protecting him as he mowed.

I had to explain to them what they were and that they were no dangerous. I still feel badly about the lizard carnage that happened that day.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. what about this?

[Ahpook]

15. Where was this photo taken?

I have a restraining order against her.

[DarkTirade]

16. Oh my god, the poor thing is so skinny... looks like its starving.

The tail fat is almost used up. :(

Leopard geckos are usually adorable. Poor little thing.

[greenbriar]

17. I don't like spiders and snakes

or that thing

[dysfunctional press]

18. the back legs look freaky- like they're on backwards.

[marzipanni]

20. Location, location, location...

Hello!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4350000/newsid_4353500/4353570.stm