New Giant Lizard Discovered

[catbrooks]

Comments

[meuniere]

Don't most/all lizards have two penises, or is it a snake trait I'm thinking of?

Regardless, it's pretty awesome in existence/colouration.

[naamah_darling]

Snakes and lizards both. It's awesome.

[inwe_elensar]

I had NO idea they did. Definitely learned something new tonight!

[svashtar]

Hemipenes are a reptilian trait, but I think they're talking about a double-headed penis, as opposed to hemipenes. Not really sure of the difference, to be honest, but I suspect it doesn't split to either side the way an iguana's penis does.

I'm in awe of a fruit eating monitor lizard and want one bad.

[zombieroadtrip]

Inorite? A monitor I can feed nothing but fruit and veggies to?? AWESOME

[mokele]

Nope, I read the original paper to check, and it's just plain old hemipenes - the media just got weird about it.

Also, technically, hemipenes are only present in squamates (snakes and lizards). Turtles have a single penis, as do crocs, and tuataras have no copulatory organ of any kind.

[mokele]

Nifty! Are they lymph-filled like duck penises?

[hollowecstacy]

Once again proving that parrots are our little velociraptor friends

[falnfenix]

I'm in awe of a fruit eating monitor lizard and want one bad.

i'm with you on that...FREAKING COOL.