1. London Zoo, which has the world’s oldest reptile house, is celebrating Lizard Day with a new puzzle box for their skilful lizards to solve.
2. All lizards are reptiles but not all reptiles are lizards. Lizards usually have four legs, external ear openings, scaly skin and movable eyelids.
3. There are more than 6,000 species of lizard in the world.
4. Green basilisk lizards can run on water for up to 15 feet. Their feet create air bubbles which keep them from sinking.
5. Leviticus is the only book of the King James Bible that mentions lizards
6. It says that ferrets, chameleons, lizards, snails and moles are unclean, even when they are dead.
7. Horned lizards can squirt blood from their eyes to confuse predators.
8. Lizard’s leg is one of the ingredients in the cauldron brewed by the witches in Macbeth.
9. The Gila monster and the beaded lizard are the only poisonous lizards, both found in northwestern Mexico.
10. The Komodo dragon, which is the largest lizard alive today, also has a bite that is effectively poisonous owing to the bacteria in its saliva.