【爬行动物】(III) 蜥蜴，恐龙真的灭绝了吗？

          
       鳄鱼是非常古老的物种。最早的鳄鱼与恐龙共存进化于大约 9500 万年前的白垩纪晚期。它们总是让我与一些伏地魔式的水栖恐龙联系起来。在蜥蜴的世界，从微距上看起来它们就是大灭绝中幸存下来的恐龙。我怀疑是否有一些真的幸存至今，但以一种不起眼的形式展现——各种蜥蜴。知道吗蛇是由蜥蜴进化而来的，有些蛇仍然有未完全退化的腿的痕迹。大多数蜥蜴的舌头又短又圆。变色龙有细长的、可伸出的舌头，但不是分叉的。具有蛇状分叉舌头的蜥蜴是巨蜥、科莫多巨蜥，等中体型较大的肉食性蜥蜴。
    

      Crocodilians are very ancient species. The earliest crocodilian, meanwhile, evolved around 95 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, coexisted  with dinosaurs. Their appearance always made me relating them to some low to the ground water-dwelling type dinosaurs.  After getting into the lizards' world, at macro scale, seem to me they are the dinosaurs survived from the mass extinction.  Could some survive to date but appear in a humble form - a great variety of lizards? Do you know that snakes are evolved from lizards?  Some snake species still have traces of not completely degraded legs. Most of the lizards have short and round tongues. Chameleons have elongated, extrudable tongues yet not forked. The lizards with a serpent-like forked tongue are the carnivorous ones of a larger size in family Varanidae (Monitors, goannas, Komodo dragon) and Teiidae (Tegus, whiptails, caiman lizards).

1.  Black Roughneck Monitor 这些monitor蜥蜴名字真没法翻译， google把rock monitor 翻译成岩石监视器

2. Black Roughneck Monitor

3. some other monitor is basking, I lost record of its name.

4. Mali Uromastyx 30-46 cm. this guy just looks like a dinosaur to me despite its size 这家伙看起来就象个小恐龙

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6. Argentine black and white tegu 0.7-1. 2 m

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8. Black-throated monitor, 1.2-1.8m up to 2.1m

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11. Quince monitor, 1.5m

12. Mertens' water monitor, 1.82m, a strong swimmer, and seldom far from water. It is often seen basking on midstream rocks and logs, and on branches overhanging.

13. Pilbara rock monitor, 30-45cm

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15. Common basilisk， 76 cm

16. Central bearded dragon lives up to its name: Like a dragon, it's equipped with armor of spiny reptilian scales, which include a “beard” of spikes under its chin that puffs up depending on its mood. 38-61 cm
胡须龙名副其实：像龙一样，它配备有带刺的爬行动物鳞片的盔甲，其中包括下巴下方的尖刺“胡须”，根据它的心情而膨胀。

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18. Asian water monitor. 2-2.5m 22.5kg, up to 3.2m, 45kg, related to Komodo dragon, often mistaken for them. Asian water monitor lizards do secrete venom, however, it is not lethally dangerous or fatal to humans while Komodo dragon bites can be fatal to humans without immediate treatment.
亚洲水巨蜥与科莫多龙是亲戚，经常被误认。亚洲水巨蜥确实会分泌毒液，但是，它对人类说并不具有致命危险或致命性，而科莫多巨蜥咬伤如果不立即治疗，可能会人类致命。

19. Nile monitor,  is Africa's longest lizard, 1.2-1.8 m

20. Nile monitor

21. Ctenosaura, A.K.A  spinytail  iguana 12.5 cm-1 m 卷尾鬣蜥

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23. Green iguna, 1.2 - 2 m, is a large lizard and is probably the largest species in the iguana family

24. .Not very green though, it is still a Green iguna

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26. ZOOM, this is a true macro shot with a macro lens, lighting is a challenge for macro photograthy, at high ISO 6400, image quality is compromised 
这是使用微距镜头拍摄的真正微距照片，光线对于微距摄影来说是一个挑战，在高 ISO 6400 下，图像质量差了些