They fled like lizards into crannies in the rocks.

它们像蜥蜴一样逃进了石缝。

A couple of venomous lizards were included in this study.

这项研究包括了一些有毒的蜥蜴。

Everything except the part about snakes evolving from lizards.

除了蛇是从蜥蜴演化而来的这一点以外。

Thick underbrush was growing there, sheltering thousands of insects and lizards.

茂密的灌木丛里住着成千上万的昆虫和蜥蜴。

A rare tree frog, a mudfish and lizards are among the thousands of species threatened by extinction.

一种罕见的树蛙，泥鱼和蜥蜴都在成千上万种濒临灭绝的动物之中。

The lizards were able to manage all three tasks with ease, matching the performance of tits in similar tests.

这些蜥蜴很容易就完成了所有三项任务，与山雀在类似测试中的表现不相上下。

Not only does the model predict where lizards should disappear, and it also predicts where they should not be in danger.

这个模型不仅预测了蜥蜴会在哪里消失，还预测了它们不应该在哪里处于危险之中。

Many of these have minuscule limbs; some look more like snakes than lizards and a few have completely lost the toes on their hind limbs.

其中很多动物都有细小的四肢；有些看起来更像蛇而不是蜥蜴，还有一些完全失去了后肢的脚趾。

If true, though, why did cold-blooded animals such as snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles survive the freezing winters and torrid summers?

如果这是真的，那么为什么像蛇、蜥蜴、乌龟和鳄鱼这样的冷血动物能在寒冷的冬天和炎热的夏天存活下来呢？

In a paper published last year, biologist Gunter Wagner of Yale University reported some work on the evolutionary history of a group of South American lizards called Bachia.

在去年发表的一篇论文中，耶鲁大学的生物学家冈特·瓦格纳报告了一种名为“Bachia”的南美蜥蜴的进化史。

Another more intriguing possibility is that the genetic information needed to make toes somehow survived for tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of years in the lizards and was reactivated.

另一种更有趣的可能性是，使蜥蜴的脚趾成形的基因信息，以某种方式存活了几千万年甚至几亿年，而且被重新激活了。

Probably back in some previous biology course you learned that snakes evolved from lizards, and that the first snakes weren't venomous and then along came more advanced snakes, the venomous snakes.

也许在以前的生物课上，你学过蛇是由蜥蜴进化而来的，而且最初的蛇是没有毒的，后来出现了更高级的蛇，也就是毒蛇。

Large lizards like being alone and don't really like lots of people around them all the time, especially noisy girls and boys at school.

然而，大蜥蜴喜欢独处，不喜欢周围总是有很多人，尤其是学校里吵闹的女孩和男孩。

The lizards could be eaten, but hardly fought back;

蜥蜴是可以吃的，而且捉它们时，它们几乎不做反抗；

He found starving residents eating rats and lizards.

他发现饥饿居民以鼠和蜥蜴为食。

Jose spends hours in the yard studying ants and lizards.

钟斯花许多时间在院子里面研究蚂蚁和蜥蜴。

We don't know how other critters breathe--lizards, for example.

我们还不知道诸如蜥蜴之类的动物如何呼吸。

Zaher believes this feature was lost as snakes evolved from lizards.

查希尔认为，当蜥蜴进化为蛇时，这些特征都消失了。

Sometimes I even feast on small birds, lizards and rodents like mice.

有时我甚至享用小鸟、蜥蜴和象老鼠那样的啮齿动物。

And a bunch of hitherto not-so-terrible lizards began their long march.

一直存活至今的一群不那么可怕的蜥蜴开始了它们的漫长征程。

That evolved so long ago we share it with many creatures, even lizards.

很久以前就已经存在，我们也分享了许多动物，甚至蜥蜴。

Snakes, frogs, lizards and other scarcely pleasant creatures - all here.

蛇、青蛙、蜥蜴和其他经常让人反胃的动物——聚集于此！

A genetic study of desert night lizards shows they live in family groups.

对沙漠夜蜥科蜥蜴的遗传基因的研究结果表明，它们以家族方式生活在一起。

Long fingers help them stay aloft and snare insects, fruit, lizards, and birds.

长长的手指帮助它们悬在空中并捕获昆虫，水果，蜥蜴和鸟类。

Others have been seen at the rescue centre hunting gecko lizards and birds.

另一些懒猴在救援中心捕食壁虎以及鸟类。

The eggs are quite often stolen by various animals including lizards and monkeys.

卵经常被各种动物偷走，包括蜥蜴和猴子。

Lizards in the wild capture moving prey by running up and down trees, Dr. Leal said.

蜥蜴在野外捕食的时候通过在树上爬上爬下来迫使猎物出来。

The island is also home to Komodo dragons, lizards that grow up to 10 feet long.

这里还是科莫多龙和长达10英尺的蜥蜴的栖身之所。

The authors “produce some pretty convincing evidence that these are venomous lizards.”

作者“提出了相当有说服力的证据证明这些是毒蜥蜴”。