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n. - Any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards.

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  • The fence lizard and the whiptail are the most closely related of the pair, but even their last common ancestor still lived at least
  • Hoxc11 and Hoxc12 were not analysed in the whiptail lizard.
  • Without crowds of people, whiptail lizards, desert iguanas, and stout chuckwallas abound.
  • Tang had seen whiptail lizards wag their tongues at prey often enough to know what was coming next.
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