Confident in its camouflage, being the same colour as the rocks, the lizard stands still when it feels danger.
蜥蜴对自己和石头颜色相同的保护色很自信，即便感觉危险也不动。
After the islands separated, the isolated lizard populations would have become distinct species while also retaining their ancestors' niche adaptations.
岛屿分离后，孤立的蜥蜴种群将成为独特的物种，同时也保留了它们祖先的生态适应能力。
It also allows a mouse to do things that a lizard can't, like using experiences to anticipate danger instead of just responding to it.
它还允许老鼠做蜥蜴不能做的事，像使用经验预测危险，而不是仅能对其作出本能反应。
The sandfish lizard, of course.
当然，是沙鱼蜥蜴喽。
It's now believed that snakes either evolved from a lizard that burrowed on land or swam in the ocean.
现在，人们认为蛇是由在陆地上穴居或者在海洋里游泳的蜥蜴进化而来的。
And that means climate change could end up driving nearly 20 percent of existing lizard species extinct by 2080.
研究发现，在2080年前20%左右的蜥蜴品种可能会因为气候变化而消失。
The way it runs – pumping its back legs akimbo, has earned it the name "bicycle lizard."
它逃跑的方式 – 把后腿向后弯曲，所以被人称为“自行车蜥蜴”。
The high tech imaging further showed that the internal architecture of the leg bones strongly resembled that of modern terrestrial lizard legs.
高科技成像技术进一步说明腿骨内在结构和现代陆生蜥蜴的腿惊人的相似。
When the image is rotated 180 degrees it bears a passing resemblance to a galloping lizard — or perhaps a dragon or a dinosaur.
图像旋转180度，它又酷似一只飞奔的蜥蜴，或是龙、恐龙一类的动物。
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the world's biggest lizard, reaching up to three metres (10 feet) long.
报道说，科莫多巨蜥（Komododragon）是世界上体形最大的蜥蜴，其身长能长到3米。
They hiked a few hundred feet into the forest before settling down to jump in puddles, examine a hibernating lizard and paint Easter eggs.
接着，他们又往森林深处走了几百英尺才停顿下来。 孩子们尽情嬉戏，有的甚至跳进了水坑玩闹，有的在观察冬眠的蜥蜴，有的开始画复活节彩蛋。
The world’s smallest known lizard, the Jaragua Sphaero or dwarf gecko, measures only 0.6in from the base of its tail to its snout.
世界上已知的最小的蜥蜴叫做雅拉瓜壁虎或侏儒守宫，从它的尾巴尖到鼻子只有0.6英寸（1.5厘米）。
Of the animals that move about on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard
地上爬物，与你们不洁净的乃是这些：鼬鼠，鼫鼠，蜥蜴与其类；
On the mirror the lizard stabilized at one color of green — the green of young leaves on trees in the spring — and returned to that one color each time I tried the experiment.
趴在镜子上的蜥蜴稳定在一种颜色——绿色，是春树发新叶的那种嫩绿。每次把它放进去时都回归到这个颜色。
Victoria Beckham has evidently risked the wrath of animal rights group PETA with her new bag collection made from crocodile, lizard and calf skins.
在娱乐圈有“时尚劳模”雅号的维多利亚-贝克汉姆最近被动物保护组织PETA盯上，起因是维多利亚在不同场合所穿着佩戴的各种鳄鱼、蜥蜴和小牛皮时装招致了这家组织的严重不满。
Reworked animations for pig, spider, elephant, giraffe, horse, and lizard legs.
修改动画的猪，蜘蛛，大象，长颈鹿，马，和蜥蜴的腿。
Its camouflage works so well that the lizard doesn't hide during the day.
这种蜥蜴伪装得非常好，以致它在白天也不用隐藏。
A small lizard perched on a brown stone.
一只小小的蜥蜴趴在一块褐色的石头上。
Kenobi, riding atop a loyal lizard named Boga, climbed to Tenth Level and found Grievous.
克诺比骑着一头叫“博加”的忠实蜥蜴爬上第十层，找到了格里弗斯。
Climate change could wipe out 20% of the world's lizard species by 2080, according to a global-scale study.
根据一项全球范围内的调查，在2080年前20%的蜥蜴品种可能会因气候变化而消失。
"If you go and pick up a lizard from the field you could be disrupting a sophisticated social order," Shine told Discovery News.
在《探索新闻》栏目里，谢利说，“如果你带走一只蜥蜴，你就很有可能破坏了一个复杂的社会次序。”
These lines are deeply carved into a flat, stony plain, and form about 300 intricate pictures of animals such as birds, a monkey, and a lizard.
这些线条被深深地雕刻在平坦的石质平原上，形成了大约300幅复杂的动物画，如鸟、猴子和蜥蜴。
If something goes wrong—a hungry lizard prowling around for an ant snack, for instance—then a rush of ants returning without food sends waiting reserves a "Don't go out" signal.
如果出了什么问题——比如，一只饥饿的蜥蜴在四处寻找蚂蚁作为零食——那么一群没有食物的蚂蚁就会匆匆归来，给等待的蚂蚁发出“不要出去”的信号。
A new species of blind, legless lizard has been found in the mountains of Cambodia, conservationists announced.
环保人士宣布：在柬埔寨山区发现新物种——一种无视力，无脚的蜥蜴。
The important point about the chameleon on the mirror riddle is that the lizard and glass become one system.
镜子上变色龙之谜的重要之处在于，蜥蜴与镜子形成了一个整体。
T. rex was unlikely to have been a herbivore. But which animals the tyrant lizard actually ate is a far harder nut to crack.
霸王龙不太可能是草食动物，但是这个蜥蜴之王到底吃那种动物却是个更难解的谜。
All of a sudden, a lizard about the size of a small crocodile hurtled out of the undergrowth and raced up a nearby baobab tree.
突然，一只小鳄鱼大小的蜥蜴从矮灌木丛中蹿出，爬上了附近的一棵猴面包树。
The point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty retreat, rocketing up the nearest arboreal loft.
恐吓皱褶的目的是给蜥蜴足够的时间仓皇撤退，窜入最近的树丛中。
But you are really interested in watching that lizard on that wall.
但是你真正感兴趣的却是墙上的那只蜥蜴。
The lizard 's tongue flicked out and caught a mosquito.
蜥蜴突然伸出舌头，捉到一只蚊子。
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