Mexican beaded lizards don’t bite humans often, and when they do, it’s typically in self-defense. Before they bite, they’ll display warning signs, like gaping and hissing.

Like the Mexican mole lizard, it faces a problem living underground: thermoregulation. As a burrower, you’re pretty much stuck with the temperature of the soil.

Mexican mole lizards are members of a group of nearly 200 mostly limbless, burrowing lizards known as Amphisbaenia. Only this species and two others in the genus Bipes still have small front limbs.

The blue spiny lizard is the largest member of its genus in this state, with adult males frequently achieving lengths over 11 inches. The record size is actually just over 14 inches.

In real life, Mexican mole lizards, which grow to be a bit shorter than the length of a strand of spaghetti (9.4 inches, or 24 centimeters), restrict their burrowing to the ground.

DENVER — The Denver Zoo’s Mexican alligator lizard has given birth to four babies. These little lizards were “born” — this is a live-bearing species, which is unique for reptiles.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two endangered Mexican beaded lizards have hatched at the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland, boosting the population of the venomous lizards. The zoo said the lizards, which are ...

Mexican mole lizards are members of a group of nearly 200 mostly limbless, burrowing lizards known as Amphisbaenia. Only this species and two others in the genus Bipes still have small front limbs.

Scanning the desert landscape of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, few people would imagine what crawls beneath the surface. Bright pink, with rudimentary eyes and just two limbs, Mexican mole lizards ...