Talk:Lizard

Number of species

We could use a better source than the volunteer-maintained "REPTILE DATABASE" website for the number of species, but an anonymously-written "Amazing Animal Facts" website seems worse, not better, here. You can plug "over X species of lizard" into Google for any value of thousands and get a variety of equally weak websites to back you up. We need reliable sources! --McGeddon (talk) 19:42, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

I was surprised to come back to this article today to see that Dylan Bruner had again changed this information. I restored the original source, which isn't ideal but is far superior to Bioexpedition.com, which as far as I can tell does not appear to offer any kind of author, parent organization, or even contact information short of a form. The closest thing I see is the ad for basicplanet.com on every single page, which offers some fee-based educational resources. There's nothing to lend this site credibility, and plenty (e.g. being a feeder site for a subscription service) indicating its unreliability. Reptile-database.org, on the other hand, is a volunteer-run reptile information source with editorial oversight and documentation of methods and sources. It cites 29,000 books and papers, tracks a long list of journals, and credits contributors. There is no question which is the more reliable source. If you find a better source, discuss it here on the talk page to gain consensus before making another change. Saying you "don't want an edit war" in your edit summary while restoring the same content is edit warring. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:34, 2 October 2014 (UTC) show adaptations here--123.211.176.145 (talk) 05:54, 16 March 2015 (UTC) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________-______________ thanks kyle mono

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Mosasaur picture

Hi! The mosasaur picture used on the Lizard page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prognathodon3.jpg is outdated. It's known many mosasaurs had a bilobed tail. Prognathodon, the mosasaur in the picture is one known to definitely have a bilobed tail thanks to a fossil of it showing the tail fins. Could someone please change the mosasaur picture on the Lizard page to an up to date picture? Good choices could be this one of Prognathodon: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prognathodon_saturator_DB.jpg or this one of Platecarpus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Platecarpus2010.jpg 90.201.190.75 (talk) 15:43, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Already done see this edit by Dinoguy2 (talk · contribs) at 16:25, 18 June 2015 (UTC). Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia. Mz7 (talk) 06:35, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 August 2015

lol 71.203.107.48 (talk) 02:37, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Not done: Not an actual edit request. Altamel (talk) 03:11, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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Types of Lizards

While this may vary based on interpretation, the major groups/ families of lizards are the Diploglossa, Gekkota, Iguania, Platynota, and Scincomorpha. Diploglossa's are typically knob scaled and American legless lizards. Gekkotas are gekkos, blind, and legless lizards. Iguania's consist of iguanas, agamas, anoles, chameleons, and they are earless lizards. Scincomorpha's are known as night lizards. Most lizards have four legs, but some only have two, and very few are completely legless. There are also only two types of venomous lizards, and those are the gila monsters (platynota lizards) and the Mexican beaded lizard. Within these groups/families of lizards, there are many other types of lizards. <ref>http://www.factzoo.com/reptiles/types-of-lizards.html/ref>