tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post3807639785689027100..comments2023-07-15T05:32:20.508-07:00Comments on Frontiers of Zoology: Another 4 Corners Giant Lizard ReportUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-52208054856575552012-09-19T22:48:41.794-07:002012-09-19T22:48:41.794-07:00I remember when I was a little girl living on the ...I remember when I was a little girl living on the Navajo Indian reservation, I was outside playing in the desert near a small arroyo full of tumbleweeds, when I saw a blue-green scaled lizard standing on it's hind legs...much like the pictures I'd seen in dinosaur books. It had a metallic sheen to it and the scales would turn from blue to green depending on how the sun shone on it. It raised up higher on it's hind feet like a startled chicken (and even moved like one)and preceded to run toward the arroyo. It looked like a pint-sized Tyranosaurus rex and ran extremely fast with it's tail lifted up off the ground. It's gait was very smooth, much like watching a roadrunner run...<br />Getting over my initial shock of seeing such a large unusual lizard (it stood over a foot tall when standing), I chased it into the tumbleweeds. There must've been a hole down there under all those weeds because it never came out even as I threw rocks. Later I came home and told my mom and aunts about it and I sure did get a lecture on leaving the lizard alone! They called it the Green Lizard and they told me that I was lucky it didn't attack me, because when it attacks, it jumps very high and latches onto your upper body and begins to try biting in the area of the heart. I have never seen this lizard in any biology or herpetology books and I am beginning to think that it has not been discovered yet. Navajo elders know of its existence though, but they don't like to talk about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-34008302169592759682012-09-12T14:53:50.491-07:002012-09-12T14:53:50.491-07:00Thank you Les. The part about Placentas had been s...Thank you Les. The part about Placentas had been suggested in a different case I had read about in Russia, and for some reason it was the first thing that came to mind. The idea that rats, mice, spiders and bugs are coming around to eat the sheep's feed (and possibly also the droppings) seems much more likely now.And in other cases, I definitely think the smaller lizards are raiding henhouses and eating eggs<br /><br />Best Wishes, Dale D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-20500514955377645942012-09-12T09:20:00.809-07:002012-09-12T09:20:00.809-07:00I grew up on a farm raising sheep and I don't ...I grew up on a farm raising sheep and I don't think the lizards would be after the placentas since ewes usually eat them a few minutes after expelling them. The lizards are more likely after the mice and rats that hang around the pens looking for hay and grain in the feeders as well as water in the stock tanks. We used to find rat nests in the hay stacks and would have to seal the grain bins to keep them out. I was always having to fish drowned rats out of the stock tanks. They probably have rats nesting in the hay, a nearby barn or in the rocks he describes making it ideal hunting habitat for snakes and lizards. Lesnoreply@blogger.com